Location : Kinderdijk, Netherlands. To drain this area, 19 windmills (windpumps?) were built about 1740. This is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This image was captured shortly after sunrise using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII camera and a Canon EF 16-35mm F/2.8L II lens set at 27mm. I used autofocus on the lily pad and then switched the lens to manual focus. 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 1/15th of a second all the way to a thousandth of 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.

To be fair, it was really slightly more complicated than what I have described above as this is a crop out of a stitch of two HDRIs which I shot as two sets of exposures for a panorama.

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