just right

The danger with shooting ultra-long exposures is that while you get the desired effect in say the water or the clouds you are capturing, the foreground can turn into a mess of blurred objects blown by the wind.

No such (bad) luck with this week’s image.

Conditions at ground level were absolutely flat calm, while higher up the jet stream was doing its thing and moving the clouds along just nicely thank you.

This meant I was able to shoot a landscape scene I was happy with, incorporating a lovely foreground together with the distant mountains and, of course, those fantastic clouds.  Shooting at just after sunset meant the high-level clouds were perfectly lit by the sun as it dipped below the horizon.

Fujifilm GFX50R, Fujinon 32-64mm f4.0

26 seconds at f16, ISO 100

Tripod, self-timer release, Lee 6-stop neutral density filter, Formatt Hitech 3-stop reverse graduated filter