Guardian of the Valley


  • Photographer
    Ed Cooley
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    September 27th, 2010
  • Technical Info
    P65, 24mm, f/16, 17 sec

I was photographing this iconic Arkansas red cedar tree at sunset. As I was putting the camera gear in my backpack a slight glow appeared at the horizon about 10 minutes after sunset. It occurred to me that with a wide angle lens I might be able to capture an image of both night and day in the same exposure. This lens has a natural vignetting that is normally corrected with a filter but instead I used it to balance the exposure of the glowing sky during the 20 second exposure. Since there was a slight breeze I took three exposures hoping the wind would be calm enough to keep the tree foliage sharp.

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