This is another HDR image from a trip back in 2003 to the Great Smoky Mountains. It is a sunset image taken on the Foothills Parkway. This image is a merging of three images exposed plus and minus 2/3 stop. I took it prior to any knowledge of HDR. My reason for the multiple exposures was to make sure I had a good exposure. It was taken with my first DSLR, a Nikon D100 and the Nikon 80-400mm lens. It wasn’t a day or two later that I dropped that lens and destroyed it. I pretty much bent it in the middle. Lesson learned was to make sure the camera and lens are securely fastened to your tripod before picking up your tripod. I ended up shooting the rest of the trip with one lens, a Sigma 24-85mm f2.8-4.0 lens.
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Tom Dills
Very nice example of a classic Smokies scene! You know, for all my trips over there I don’t think I’ve ever been on the Foothills Parkway. It’s kind of “out of the way” from where we normally go and we usually end up elsewhere. I’ll need to make a better effort to get there, and soon!
I was on a workshop once with a guy who was carrying his D700 and 24-120 lens on his tripod with it slung over his shoulder. He tripped on a tree root, the tripod with his camera attached pivoted over his shoulder and smashed both to the ground! I think he got both of them repaired, but I remember that the lens was broken in half. A lesson in being careful with our stuff, for sure!
Monte Stevens
Yes, the camera was okay because the lens took the full impact. The lens was bent and nothing moved, the focus ring or the zoom ring. 🙁 We made 2 or 3 trips to the Parkway and ran into workshop groups both in the morning and the evening. Yes, the parkway is outside of the park. We were staying in Townsend so it wasn’t too far away.