How I Made This: Cape May Jetty
Disclaimer before I start, this is my first photography blog post. Hopefully it's not too awkward, but any feedback about what aspects I should put more or less focus on would be appreciated. Location Scouting For this shoot, I drove down to Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. It's a place I've been a few times, most recently back in February, and I chose this place because of a couple unique features. First, as the name implies, it's a good place to view the sunset. Part of the beach faces west, towards the Delaware Bay, where you can watch the sun set behind the shipwrecked SS Atlantus, a World War 2-era concrete ship. About a half mile away, the beach curves to face south towards the Atlantic Ocean. The second reason is that, being at the very southern tip of New Jersey, it is one of the places with the least light pollution in the state, which makes it one of the better places to see stars at night. Admittedly, the conditions weren't that great, as there were