I've been out for about 2 hours, and essentially took two photos only. Well, this one is the second one.
You might wonder why two shots only in two hours? It's an avarage of one hour per photo!
The reason is simple... and complicate at the same time. I'm trying to improve my composition skills, and this requires a bit more of time to study for a good location, a good subject, and, well, a good composition of course.
Moreover, this photo is actually a night-time HDR, which means: several exposures, each of them several seconds long.
For this particular picture, for example, I was taking 7 different photos, then I merged them to create a High Dynamic Range image that I finally tonemapped and reduced to a 16bit image.
This allowed me to correctly expose for some hard lights (due to two big lamps on the near building facade) and the deep shadows.
Also, HDR can help to increase a lot the micro-contrast, thus giving very detailed images in all light ranges, from highlights to shadows, passing through midtones.
Of course, for such a photo to be taken, a good tripod is required.
Also, because of rather long time exposures, I was taking a dark shot for each real shot, to reduce the noise.
The final result is the one you can see here.
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