I took this photo in the center of Harderwijk, it is an HDR photo consists of 6 photos. The shortest exposure for this HDR is 8 seconds and the longest exposure is 30 seconds. The church you see is the Great Church in Harderwijk a building that rises above the old town. The 2 days before I took this picture it had snowed in the Netherlands, it was really winter. You can see we have 2 light colors, the yellow of the streetlights and the white of a store window. As you can see the church building itself is also illuminated. When I took this photo, a path across the snow towards the church had already formed. I spent over half an hour at the location to take the 6 photos for this HDR, it has to do not only with the slow shutter speeds but also that someone was passing by. The street that you see in this HDR photo is the Korte Kerkstraat, there are only a few front doors leading to this short street.
Welcome to my shop. My name is Gerard de Zwaan and I was born in 1983 in the Veluwe town of Harderwijk where I grew up and still live. I started photography in 2013. My first camera was a Nikon D3200 which I still own and is now as a.. Read more…