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All of a sudden the lights went out.  I had time on the UPS to shut the computers down.  Power stayed out, so I got the camera.  Apparently someone had hit a power pole...the roads were icy.  I did several long exposures using only light reflected from the clouds.  Then I combined them into an HDR composite image and saturated the colors.  It's amazing to me how much detail was captured in near-darkness and brought out while combining the images.  I certainly couldn't read the street sign nor make out the color of the truck.  I didn't even know that there were still colored leaves on the trees.  I used the light from the camera's LCD panel to light my way back into the house.

EXIF Data
Camera Canon EOS 7D
Camera mode Aperture Priority
Shutter Speed 3, 6 and 10 seconds
Aperture f8
Metering Mode Pattern
Exposure Comp. -1, 0, +1
ISO Speed 1600
Flash No
Lens Canon 18-200 EF-S
Focal Length 32mm
Image Stabilization Yes
Autofocus Yes
Post Processing Photomatix HDR S/W
Illumination Bounced light from clouds

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