03/21/19 Broadway Bridge over the Arkansas River in Little Rock–Featured Arkansas Photography

                                                                                                   Twilight on the Broadway Bridge, Little Rock Arkansas

Taken with a Nikon D850 and 24-70 lens, 4 vertical photos, stitched into 1 landscape panorama. 

The new Broadway Bridge in downtown Little Rock/North Little Rock has been a eye catching subject since its’ completion.  I wanted to catch the bridge in the magic 30 minutes of light after sundown, when the sky is still showing a slight blue tint.  The motion of the cars moving over the bridge turned  into a painting of light due the very slow shutter speed I selected of 3 to 5 seconds.  This photograph is a combination of 6 different images as I also had to bracket my shutter speed to capture the full dynamic range of the scene. 

I used a tripod to keep my scene as level as possible and did not worry about a nodal point.  To be honest, way too much is made of finding a nodal point with modern stitching software.  You just don’t have to worry about it as much.  I had no trouble getting the railing in the immediate foreground to line up at all.  I used Phase One’s Capture One software to develop the images and then stitched them together in Lightroom.  I also had to work a bit to get the building straightened out since my camera was pointed up slightly.  I went ahead and picked a aperture of around F10 to help with the star burst from the street lights.

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