Location: looking east towards Bamburgh Castle on the Northumberland coast of England, about an hour after sunset. There is a full moon rising over the left hand side of the castle, but unfortunately some sodium vapor spotlights on the main castle keep were pointed towards me which I would have loved to turn off.

This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII with a 24~70mm F/2.8L lens set at 43mm. I auto focused on the castle and set the lens switch to manual focus. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/5.6, ISO 100, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 15 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/500th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving the HDRI was all done in Photoshop CS/4. The HDRI was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro before the final clean-up and image correction/enhancement work was done back in Photoshop.

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