Location: Market Place, Wells, Somerset. Wells has the distinction of being the smallest city in England. It was about 10:30pm at night, and the last image I captured that night as it was getting quite dark. For these nighttime shots I do like to capture detail or color in the sky and it is almost totally gone here.

This image was captured using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkII with a 16~35mm F/2.8L II lens set at 16mm. I auto focused on the nearest building and set the switch to manual focus. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/8, ISO 400, and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 11 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/30th 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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