Palau de la Musica

This is the spectacular Palau de la Musica in Barcelona. I planned to get here before any other people arrived, but there were a few that meandered in front of my camera as I was choosing my settings. So, I had to clone them out with the help of the content aware command. This is a 7-frame HDR composite. I hand held the camera, and Photoshop blended the images (that were obviously not identically aligned) into a perfectly sharp photography. The more contrast there is in a scene, the more frames you need to be able to see detail in both the highlights and the shadows. I took this with a 16mm focal length, and my settings were f/5.6 and 12,800 ISO. The shutter varied, giving me the exposure bracketing necessary for HDR.