I rarely include a road in my landscapes, but the S-curve of this highway leading toward Mt. Cook, New Zealand's tallest mountain, was too attractive to eliminate. At twilight, the streaks of the head lights and tail lights of passing cars added to the interesting quality of this scene. The problem was that there were very few cars passing by, and the 20 second exposure I used wasn't long enough to capture the entire length of the streaks from the furthest point to the closest. It took about 60 to 90 seconds for a car to cover that much distance. Therefore, I took three separate exposures as the cars drove either toward me or away from me. I then cut and pasted the various streaks into a single composite image. Using Image > adjustments > hue/saturtion as well as Image > adjustments > color balance, I embellished the twilight landscape to make the colors come alive. My settings were 20 seconds, f/32, 100 ISO, and I shot this with Canon's 100-400mm telephoto.
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