Date Taken: 10/18/2013
Location: South of the Blue Ridge Parkway near Burnett Reservoir

Camera: Nikon D4
Lens: 70-200mm f/2.8
Focal Length: 110
ISO: 1000
Shutter: 1/1000
Aperture: 7.1
Filters: None
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: Autumn colors foliage low altitude aerial photo taken out of an opened canopy airplane along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina on October 18, 2013 – Copyright 2013 David Oppenheimer – Performance Impressions aerial photography archives

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Location: Craggy Pinnacle Tunnel near Craggy Gardens Visitor Center, Milepost 364.4
The fog comes rolling in. 10-6-13

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Location: Boone Fork Creek. Milepost 300
Boone Fork Creek intersects the Tanawha Trail on the slopes of Grandfather Mountain in the High Country of northwest North Carolina. This shot was taken October 4th of last year.

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Visit Virtual Blue Ridge for a printable map of the Tanawha Trail.

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Date Taken: 09/24/2015
Location: Just north of the Tanbark Ridge Overlook, Milepost 376.7 on the Blue Ridge Parkway north of Asheville
Fall colors are starting to pop!

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Date Taken: 10/01/2015
Location: Craggy Pinnacle Tunnel near the Craggy Gardens Visitor Center, Milepost 364.6 along the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina.
The tunnel at Craggy Gardens frames the fall color along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Camera: Pentax K-50
Lens: 18-55
Focal Length: 28
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: 5.6
Filters: None
Exposure: Program
How I Got This Shot: Thankfully, I was driving very slow through the tunnel so I was able to stop briefly and snap a pic since there was very little traffic this morning.

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Location: Just south of Buck Springs Tunnel, Milepost 407.3 near Mt. Pisgah
A splash of color. 10-3-13

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Location: Rough Ridge Trail, from the Rough Ridge Overlook.
View from the Rough Ridge Trail along the Blue Ridge Parkway, near the Linn Cove Viaduct.

Camera: Canon 5D MKIII
Lens: Sigma 24-70 f/2.8
Focal Length: 24mm
ISO: 200
Shutter: Varied
Aperture: f/16
Filters: None
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: Hiked up the Rough Ridge trail to the first of the excellent overlooks. I first shot some of the excellent views of the Linn Cove Viaduct, and then started looking all around. I’ve found so many times that there are good shots behind me, that I always take the time to look after I’ve shot the obvious.

The sun popped out from behind a cloud giving me this nice shadowed area to work with in my composition, and some neat clouds rolled over the mountain. The dynamic range going from the sharp shadows to the bright clouds made think that HDR was the way to go.

I shot this with the camera mounted on a tripod, using live view and a remote cable release to eliminate shake. Using the tripod makes the HDR processing a lot easier, which is why I stayed with it, even though all the shutter speeds used were technically hand-holdable.

I shot a 5 shot group of “under” and “over” exposed shots so I would have shots with enough shadow and highlight detail to recreate the scene as my eyes saw it. I ended up choosing three of those shots -2/3 under, as camera metered, +2/3 over to make the HDR image.

Processing the final HDR image, I tried to recreate the scene as my eye saw it. The end result is pretty close to what I would have gotten 20 years ago with Fuji Velvia slide film, but with better shadow detail.

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Location: Blue Ridge Parkway at Graveyard Fields
View from the Parkway including Graveyard Fields, Black Balsam knobs, the falls, and a magnificent red maple.

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Location: Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 418.8
“Tapestry”
An early October afternoon at Graveyard Fields.
© 2013 Kristina Plaas, All Rights Reserved

Camera: Nikon D5100
Lens: Nikkor DX 18-55mm 3.5
Focal Length: 18mm
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: 11
Filters: none
Exposure: Manual
How I Got This Shot: Streams of late afternoon sunlight turned to fire on this ridge at Graveyard Fields. Normally everyone shoots the waterfalls and river in front of and to the left of the ridge, but on this occasion the light demanded that I capture the tapestry of Autumn colors Graveyard Fields is famous for. Shot handheld.

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