Enchanted Rock - The Next Morning #1

Now we return to the next morning, when the first postings of this series were captured. We got back to the park before dawn (my favorite time of the day) to catch the rising sun against Turkey Peak. My friend is a pro-level landscape photographer, so he brought his full-frame rig with awesome tripod. I was left to hand-hold the Big Cahoona in the pre-dawn darkness.

Amazingly, this shot somehow made it without too much blur. The Big Cahoona stays in "P" mode 99% of the time, but in order to get the shutter to behave in the kind of light we were in I switched it to "S" and notched it up to 1/80th of a second. Still had to clone out some fringing and blur from the inside of the moon, but otherwise this photo is untouched...