Shot while visiting my parents in Sun City Grand, Arizona (Phoenix) last week. I've shot this scene before for personal use, and thought it would make a great Free Study entry. This was part of a series of long exposures (anywhere from 30sec to 5 minutes in complete darkness). I was upset that there was cloud cover, as the last time I shot this it was clear - and I ended up liking the results better with the clouds :O)
This is was a single 2 minute exposure processed from RAW into 3 different lighting sets and recombined in CS3. I did the "HDR" simulation manually, as I've never really liked any of the results from the available tools.
I had lots of different images to choose from, and this might've done better cropped way in (the detail in the grass & the retaining wall is pretty awesome), but I just liked the overall feel of this composition.
Hope it does okay :O)
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