Moving in close with a wide angle focal length emphasizes the foreground subjects - the pumpkins - and de-emphasizes the background subjects - the house. The deep blue sky is courtesy of a circular polarizing filter.
A shutter speed of 1/250 was not needed for this shot, but I was shooting moving subjects (guess what they were) before and after grabbing this shot. ISO 200 is so clean that there is nearly no consequence for this setting.