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UNA Fountain Pictures

I've liked seeing the lighting of the UNA fountain at night after their football games. I've shot it a few times handheld but they just weren't too sharp. After last night's game, I pulled out the tripod and shot a series of pictures and got some good results.

This first one is the final result of the shots below. I took the merged shot and pulled out as much as I could without it becoming a digital mess. In Lightroom CC I bumped the whites and shadows a bit, the blacks a lot, and bumped up the clarity quite a bit.

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The shot started as three auto exposure bracketing shots. 

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The baseline 22mm f/14 for .3 sec at ISO 400.

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The next one at f/14 1/6 sec ISO 400

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The final one at f/14 .6 sec ISO 400

I merged them into an HDR image in Lightroom to get:

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This is the one I played around with to get the shot at the top.