Europe is full of beautiful, quaint villages, and this is one of them. It is Colmar, and it's picture-perfect pretty much everywhere you go. The look I was going for was telephoto compression, so I used a 70-200mm zoom set to 78mm. That created the compression I wanted, and f/11 was a small enough lens aperture to insure complete depth of field given the distance from the building facades to my shooting position. I took this image at dusk -- before twilight -- when some of the lights came on yet there was still light in the sky. For both dusk and twilight, I now shoot 5 or 7 HDR sequences to make sure all the detail in the shadows as well as the highlights shows up. My other settings were 2.5 seconds and 200 ISO, and I added quite a bit of saturation. I obviously used a tripod.
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