I was driving up the blueridge parkway around 5am thanksgiving weekend. Desperately looking for an open spot that wasnt the typical cliche look out area. I saw the sky change color and knew sunrise was coming fast. it my by luck i happened to see a state park sign that mentioned a look out tower. As I turned down the state park road I saw beautiful clouds as far as the eye could see. it was only through the trees but i knew I was in a good area.
Finally i got to the gate that was closed until sunrise so i found a spot to park and climbed a tall rock to setup and didnt care about teh look out tower.
i started with time lapses, long exposures of the sunrise and then once the sun was higher than I wanted I turned my direction to this area behind me. the sun rising behind me caused this 2 tone scene which was amazing.
I purposely shot this scene @ 1.4 and focused on the fore ground as I wanted the back ground to slightly fall OOF rather than stop down to F8 for an entire crisp scene.
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