I am constantly blown away by the brilliant art in Europe. It's everywhere, even in the way cities illuminate their buildings at night. And nowhere is artistry more apparent, and more dynamic, than in Italy. This image of a spectacular pipe organ in the Pfarr Church in Bixen, Italy is an example. Because the stained glass window was several f/stops brighter than the face of the organ, which was in shadow, I had to use HDR. This is a handheld HDR sequence in which I shot five frames with my typical one f/stop incremental difference between each image. The slowest shutter speed was 1/60. The aperture was f/4 and the ISO was 1600. Note that you can only hand hold an HDR sequence if you're shooting with a wide angle lens. In this case, the focal length was 24mm. I completed the image with the application of the 'tonal contrast' filter in Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
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