This is the famous Basilica de la Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain. Construction on the cathedral begin in 1882, and it is still not finished. For decades, construction cranes and scaffolding have made photography of the exterior challenging. I spent about two hours in Photoshop eliminating all of the unsightly equipment from this image. I took this in 2007, and a lot of work has been done since then. I'm leading a photography tour to Spain and Portugal April 9 - 21, and it will be fascinating to see the progress over the past 15 years. The interior of this cathedral is breathtaking; I'm looking forward to doing a vertical panorama of the interior. The reason I bought the Sigma 14mm f/1.8 ultra wide angle was specifically for dimly lit cathedral interiors. The unusually large lens aperture on a wide angle allows me to do 7-frame handheld HDR sequences. The key is making sure the slowest shutter speed doesn't go below 1/30th of a second. In my experience, you can handhold a 14mm lens at this shutter speed and still have a sharp picture because the width of the lens means there is virtually no 'apparent' movement. My settings for this picture were 1.3 seconds, f/7.1, and 200 ISO.
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