''Sunset valley''
After a some hiking and a day off scouting this area for landscape photography, the next day we decided to hike back up the hills to this vantage point to shoot the sunset and the twilight on our way back. In this place the compositional possibilities are truly endless, but guided by the presented light, shapes and textures in the landscape, this was the obvious image to make.
To achieve this result i made an exposure blend of 2 shots, combined with a 3rd one for the sunstar at a more closed aperture.
Did you focus stack this image at all out of curiosity?
Yes, I actually did refocus on the background for the darker exposure.
The texture of the mountain is really interesting. The peak is slightly off center, that throws me in an image that is almost symmetrical but other people might prefer it that way.