Location : It is in the municipality of La Saunière located in the department of Creuse and the region Limousin, France. I have just returned from teaching a workshop in central France and this is one of our field trips. The Château dates back to the fifteenth century and is in private hands but we are privileged to have the owner’s permission to photograph there. Château du Théret was filmed in 2002, for the television movie "Children of Light", with Nathalie Baye, after the book by Françoise Chandernagore.

It was in the afternoon when I captured this image using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkIII camera and a Canon 24-105mm f/4 L lens set to 73mm. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the Château. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 9 exposures from 1/8th of a second all the way to 1/2000th of a second in one stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS6. The HDRI TIFF file was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro. The final adjustments were then done back in Photoshop, with the Nik Color Efex Pro plug-in.