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Date Taken: 06/27/2019
Location: MP367: BRP seen from Craggy Pinnacle

Camera: Canon Rebel T6i
Lens: 55-250mm
Focal Length: f/13
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/15
Aperture: 7.375
Filters: ND-6
Exposure: Aperture
How I Got This Shot: We hiked to the pinnacle of Craggy mountain approaching sunset time and found some spectacular vistas – and the BRP wrapping itself around like a ribbon around the mountain.

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Date Taken: 10/17/2016
Location: Craggy Pinnacle Trail, Milepost 364.2 in Craggy Gardens. 

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Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/4L IS USM
Focal Length: 16mm
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/30 s
Aperture: 16
Filters: None
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: I live in the DC area and have visited the Blue Ridge Parkway a few times over the past few years. I have mostly spent time around the Boone area and never drove south of the Crabtree Falls till this last trip. I have always wanted to photograph this famous birch tree and got to the Craggy Pinnacle trailhead about 2 hours before sunset. The trail is really busy around this time of the year and this tree is very close to the trailhead. I tried a few different compositions while being conscious of other hikers. I wanted to get rays of sun as it was setting behind the tree and the vertical composition allowed me to accentuate the twisted branches. There wasn’t much of a breeze and I was able to close down the aperture to f/16 that gave me a beautiful sunburst.

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Date Taken: 10/13/2016
Location: View from Craggy Pinnacle parking lot in Craggy Gardens, Milepost 364.4 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina.

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Date Taken: 06/06/2014
Location: The Craggy Pinnacle Trail, Milepost 364 on the Blue Ridge Parkway just north of the Craggy Pinnacle Tunnel.

Camera: Sony A57
Lens: Tamron 17-50mm 2.8
Focal Length: 45mm
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/100
Aperture: 6.3
Filters: None
Exposure: Aperture Priority
How I Got This Shot: Taken from Craggy Pinnacle, I believe this shot was handheld based on the fstop I used and ISO. Clouds move quickly up here and you’re often changing your viewpoint often due to the dramatic conditions.

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Location: Craggy Pinnacle Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 364
A lovely sunrise taken from the peak of Craggy Pinnacle, milepost 364

Camera: Nikon D3100
Lens: Nikkor 18-105
Focal Length: 38mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/80
Aperture: f/16
Filters: circular polarizer
Exposure: Aperture Priority
How I Got This Shot: When I captured this image in July 2011, I had used an SLR for a grand total of five months – I was definitely still in my learning stage then. I just enjoyed the thrill of climbing to the top of Craggy Pinnacle and seeing the incredible view around me – the sun rising over Mount Mitchell to the east, and a sea of fog to the west.

If I had a chance to shoot this one again I’d have shot a bit more wide open – I’ve found my sharpest images tend to be between f/8 and f/11 for the lenses I use. I also would have shot manual rather than aperture priority, and I would manually focus rather than depend on the D3100’s shaky auto-focus. I’ve upgraded to a D7000 since then, and it is a far superior camera in every way.

Having said all that, the D3100’s auto white balance tended to produce warm sunrises and sunsets, so when I found this image, unedited, on an old flash drive a week ago, I left the white balance as is when I went to edit it on Adobe Camera RAW, then on Lightroom. Other than some noise removal (the D3100 didn’t exactly produce clean images, even at low ISO speeds), the image looks more or less as it did out of camera. Not a perfect image, but certainly nice enough for the limited knowledge I had at the time.

Another thing: always keep your old RAW files, as you never know – you might find a hidden gem or two as I did with this one.

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