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Ceiling detail, Lady of the Snows church, Prague
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Stephen Shoff |
I haven't been posting very frequently so I thought I'd put this one up more for its interest value than for critical comment. Critical comments are, of course welcome, but I'm not sure I'll spend a lot of time trying to make this image into more than what it is. I've also included the original that this is cropped from.
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Aimee C. Eisaman |
What an amazing building....just fantastic! You could spend days there photographing all the little details from different angles. I agree with you there isn't much you can do with this because the symmetry is off, but it is really interesting. Thanks for sharing! :~)
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Debbie E. Payne |
Thanks for sharing, Stephen. I, too, think this is an incredible ceiling and would be hard pressed to recommend any changes despite the "offness" -(if there is such a word...) of symmetry Architectural shots are so difficult for me to get right and take so much time post-processing to get just so. Not sure I would bother with these as they are magnificent as is.
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Teresa H. Hunt |
Wow what an amazing building. I think Aimee is right, you could probably spend days shooting the little details!
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Anthony L. Mancuso |
Stunning architecture you captured here Steven....would love to make it back to Europe to shoot someday...
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Jeff E Jensen |
I love the details in this. I could kill a good bit of time in a place like this.
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- Michael Kelly Contact Michael Kelly Michael Kelly's Gallery |
It is magnificent. I do like the crop that you took from the original. It does have that slight feel of being {off}, but still a lot of great detail and an interesting architectural shot. I could work with the tools to stretch and play forever and not get it any more {on} than you have it shown here.
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Stephen Shoff |
Very often, in a setting like this, I'm very reluctant to do what it takes to get the symmetry perfect, if for no other reason than that these are active churches and I want to be respectful of the worshippers. Many times, too, I'm not by myself and I can't take the time. Its possible in this one I might have been able to unobtrusively set up a better diagonal. I did do some straightening of the lines to reduce the wide-angle effects, Mike, but I knew I was off-center and wouldn't be able to change that, so didn't try. My goal was to capture the elegance and detail of the ceiling. Debbie, very often these pictures end up being the easiest for me to work with. I usually spend time reducing the wide-angle effects and finding a good crop. But other than that, it usually isn't much more than setting the color temperature, black and white points, and then adding some contrast and sharpening. Thanks, all, for your comments.
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Debbie E. Payne |
Stephen, I am just now starting to get the hang of the skewing, distorting, scaling and all those other tools that can accomplish the "straight" shot. But some times I rebel and take something that I know will never be straight. And as to taking pictures in public places and especially places of worship where I would never get down on my hands and knees or lay flat out on the floor; both out of respect as well as making a spectacle out of myself getting up. So...my pics from Vegas were pretty straightforward and not what I might otherwise do with no audience around.
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Peter W. Marks |
Very interesting Stephen and is a place and building I am never likely to visit. But now of course your image immediately prompted me to Google off to Prague and I know a whole lot of stuff about it. Excellant work.
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