I took this image earlier today and when I looked at it on my monitor, I thought I had trash. I began cropping the image and ended up with a pano of teddy bear chollas. Unless you have never photographed these cacti. They simply hold light like nothing else. For the original image I was trying to get a sunstar at the crest of a mountainside but the sky was overexposed (even with a 3stop and 2 stop grad ND filters). What I really liked here was how the sunbeams from the half sunstar I was able to achieve, hovered over one particular cacti. I did pull back the reds because they were very strong, but still wanted that nice warm light over the cacti. I have been hoping for some nice clouds, but that didn't happen, and while I was shooting this scene, a pack of coyotes strolled right by me as if they didn't notice. The times I wish I had brought the big glass....
Teddy bear cholla- Arizona
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Sta.sh
When my sky is overexposed i try make a HDR with it...
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Antoine