We arrived just at twilight at the Qutab Minar in Delhi. Without a tripod, I had to trust everything to my hand, the sensor of my Nikon Z6 and the miraculous noise cleaning and image reconstruction that the PureRaw software does.
This was one of the first shots I did. I selected a 14mm objective, composing with the converging lines of the ruins and the flower bed, so that they directed the view to the minaret, placed on the line of the first vertical third. Aperture of F8, to have focus from the first term to infinity, and a speed of 1/125 to avoid trepidations. The sensation of depth was perfect, but the deformations caused by the extreme angle were inadmissible, especially at the edges of the image and in the tower itself. The processing, after cleaning the file with PureRaw, I have started by correcting the perspective and giving it back a natural look with Photoshop's Adaptive Wide Angle tool, in perspective mode. Then I have recovered light and contrast with some tools based on Artificial Intelligence from Luminar Neo, to continue with a contrasting by zones in Camera Raw and final touches helped by Nik's software and enhancing the point of the sun with Knol Light Factory. To top it off, painted high lights supported by luminosity masks.
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