This is a composite photograph of 3 different photos taken. Don’t confuse this with HDR photography though. I spent almost 30 minutes collecting the three exposures used to produce this image. One was metered to make the sky look forboding, one to capture the proper exposure for the Shack itself, and one to bring the foreground into proper exposure. Each image was overlayed in photoshop and blended into the final composite image seen here.
The seperate photographs were all produced with the Sony a700 and an 16-85mm Zeiss lens on an older manfrotto tripod (still one of the best buys ever).