Soaring Over Horseshoe Bend

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Soaring Over Horseshoe Bend
Soaring Over Horseshoe Bend

Oh goodie, another shot of Horseshoe Bend! Yep, I get it. Everybody and their brother has shot it. We had never seen it, though, and since I just happened to have a camera with a wide-angle lens on me, I decided I might as well use it 😉.

Turns out we arrived late, just a few minutes before sunset, and there were about 200 people all over the rocky ledge of the expansive viewing area. It's a .75-mile walk from the parking lot to the viewing area, and we ran the last quarter mile or so to try to capture the Sun before it blinked out behind the mountains on the horizon. (We made it, but in this shot it had already set.) Then I was scrambling to find a spot where I could see the whole "horseshoe" of the river. You have to get reeeally close to the edge to do so. I finally found a good spot, and I didn't even have to push anyone over the cliff to make room for my tripod. Most people were just watching the sunset or taking selfies with their smartphones, as people do.

We were fortunate on this evening to have some cool clouds that lit up over the horizon. That big one in the middle looks like a giant bird in flight, with wings spread, and there's even a smaller one to the lower left of it. So at least that part is original, right?

This is a two-exposure HDR blend, with one image exposed for the bright sky (which left the foreground practically black) and the other exposed for the land (which severely overexposed the sky). The properly exposed parts of the two images were then combined in Photoshop to create the final image.

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Taken on: April 2, 2023
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Camera: Sony ILCE-7M3, f/16.0, 0.8 sec, 16mm, ISO 800 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Sony ILCE-7M3
Lens: TAMRON SP 15-30mm F/2.8 Di VC USD A012
Aperture: f/16.0
Exposure Time: 0.8
Focal Length: 16mm
ISO: 800
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program: Manual
Exposure Mode: Manual
Metering Mode: Center-weighted average
White Balance: Manual
Light Source: Shade
Color Space: sRGB
Software: ILCE-7M3 v3.10
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