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Archive 2014 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral

  
 
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Took this while touring the St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral in Brussels.

I was hoping for a bit more drama, but maybe it just isn't there? Or brighten the lower half?



Seth



Aug 14, 2014 at 08:27 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


If this was colorful, color would add drama. I always prefer architecture to be undistorted. The bottom portion is especially distorted, you could crop near the top of the circular columns and eliminate the worse of it.

I am not a B&W guy, but I suspect different processing might put some snap into it, maybe one of the B&W members will have some ideas.



Aug 14, 2014 at 08:33 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


Seth, that looks like a great place to shoot.

I'm torn on the B+W. It does look really nice for the patterns and the pillars, but you also lose all the dramatic color of the (presumably beautiful) stained glass windows.

Do you have Lightroom? There's a perspective correct function in the manual adjustments area at the bottom of the develop module. That might help out the distortion.



Aug 14, 2014 at 09:41 AM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


Use lighting effects and crank up the clarity for some drama?







Aug 14, 2014 at 10:01 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


How does the color version look?


Aug 14, 2014 at 03:27 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


Thanks for the hints, all!

Here is the color version, with some of the tips ya'll gave



and the out of camera jpg below. As you can see, I tried to underexpose to get some of the glass colors up above, but was not very successful.




Aug 14, 2014 at 08:32 PM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


Thats some tough lighting. Probably no tripod either, but if so, you could have bracketed and blended.

I like your reworked color version better.



Aug 14, 2014 at 09:18 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


I do like the color version better.
I see some color noise in the bottom, but that's really only if I stare it. You've done a nice job bringing up the shadows.

I find the front-center candle to be a little distracting since it appears to be ever so slightly OOF.



Aug 14, 2014 at 09:53 PM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Interior of St Gudule and St Michael's Cathedral


Thanks everyone as I think that I've about maxed out that file's capability. FarmerJohn, it is a bit noisy and the candle is distracting, but it kind of comes with the territory when your using a 5D, 1/25 @ f/4, and 800 ISO ....


Aug 15, 2014 at 05:12 AM
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I prefer the color version as well


Aug 15, 2014 at 09:31 AM





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