Little Rock Sunrise from the Junction Bridge–05/14/15 Featured Arkansas Photography

Sunrise from the Junction Bridge in Little Rock Arkansas

Taken with a Canon 5D MKII and Canon 24mm TS-EII lens iso 100, F8.  The Junction bridge in Little Rock, which is now only for foot traffic, offers a great view of downtown Little Rock.  I love to catch the early morning sun on the buildings.   This is best done right before the sun has risen so that the glare on the glass is not extreme and it also allows you to still get the pre-morning blue sky off to the west.  The Junction bridge is lit up at night and I made a point of getting this photograph taken before the lights were off.  I took this shot in a series of images to stitch together later.  I used a 24mm TS-E lens, but did not shift as the shifted portion of the image was not enough to capture the full panorama look I wanted.  Instead I found the nodal point of the lens, and rotated it through 3 different locations and bracketed the exposures with each.  Canon’s cameras have excellent color, but pretty poor dynamic range even at the base iso, so if you don’t want a lot of noise in your shadows, it’s always best to bracket your exposures.  The lens I used, the 24mm TS-E is by far the best lens in this class, and has excellent details to the corners even at F 4.5.  After working up each segment, I then used Ptgui to stitch the scene into one large panorama.