I found these beautiful doors at a hotel I was using in Provence, France. I originally took the picture with a 15mm fisheye lens, but in post-processing I decided I didn't like the curvature of the vertical lines caused by the distortion of the lens. So, I used Filter > liquify to correct that. Flowers always look best in soft and diffused light, and on this day the sun kept coming in and out of the clouds. I simply waited for diffused light to take the shot. My settings were 1/40, f/9, and 400 ISO. With extreme wide angle lenses, you can get away with slower shutter speeds without using a tripod because slight camera movements don't show up with speeds as slow as 1/30. To be safe, of course, a tripod is ideal with these kinds of speeds. However, if the foreground is close to the shooting position, this means you need a fairly small aperture for complete depth of field. And that, in turn, means the shutter speed will be slower particularly if you don't want to raise the ISO.
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