The most beautiful time to shoot both large and small cities is twilight. This small village in Austria, Maria Alm, is very quaint and beautiful, and it looks great at sunset and even when the sky is overcast. However, at twilight it’s magical.
In the summer, twilight is late in Europe. Depending on the exact location, it can be 10pm or later. After traveling and shooting all day, it’s exhausting to push yourself to get the best pictures, but that’s what it takes. I had climbed halfway up a mountain to get this picture, and I was surrounded by cows as I made the twilight exposures from a tripod. When I used to shoot film, I used a tried and true exposure formula for twilight (10 seconds at f/8 with 50 ISO). Now with digital it’s a simple matter to just check the LCD monitor and then adjust the exposure compensation feature from there. This was taken with a daylight white balance.
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