Location : Portland, Dorset. I waited for the light to be switched on and to show up clearly against the night sky before scrambling up a rock pile to get a better view and have some foreground details.

This image was captured after sunset using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera and a Canon EF 16~35mm F/2.8L II lens set at 16mm. I used Liveview and 10x magnification to manually focus on the rock. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 7 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to ½ a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI were all done in Photoshop CS/5. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and enhancement work was done back in Photoshop.

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