Autumn Antietam

Perhaps we will make a tradition of skulking around cemeteries on Halloween. Yesterday we defied the weather reports and poked around Middletown, and Antietam. This panoramic looks out over the Antietam Cemetery—you can just barely see the flag perching out above the trees.

The dark clouds followed us much of the afternoon, but they made for a pleasantly-foreboding background. To reinforce the final days of the autumn color, I selectively desaturated the yellow and green colors, leaving the reds and blues to give the image a tonality appropriate to the season.

The other unusual photographic technique I used was to spot flash when making panoramics. It's a subtle effect, but it tends to allow the foreground to remain visible while allowing the background, particularly the sky, to be darker. I like the net effect. What do you think?

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