Cathedral indoor

[Guillermo Freige]

One of my first pictures taken inside a big structure with available light with my S50. Taken in RAW and curves postprocessed in PS. Some USM applied too.
http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photos/small/CRW_1109.jpg (http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photo.php?photo=433&size=standard&exhibition=7)

The picture was taken inside the La Plata Cathedral, in my own city.
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What do you think?

[pappy]

You have done very well with this Guillermo, the highlights are perfectly exposed and you have allowed the deep shadow to remain that way which is exactly how this image should be.

I like the upward 'movement' of the composition which hints at the magnificence and size of the cathedral.

Excellent work.

Regards,
Peter

[Guillermo Freige]

pappy wrote:
You have done very well with this Guillermo, the highlights are perfectly exposed and you have allowed the deep shadow to remain that way which is exactly how this image should be.


Peter:
Thanks for your comments :)
One of the most difficult things with the S50 is to keep the highligths. Almost always I must use negative EV compensation.

Guillermo

[Leighow]

Great shot. I would crop just below the left hand window to strenghthen the diagonal across all three windows.

HOWIE

[Guillermo Freige]

Leighow wrote:
Great shot. I would crop just below the left hand window to strenghthen the diagonal across all three windows.

HOWIE

Someting like this?
http://gfreige.homelinux.org/gallery/photos/small/CRW_1109_modif.jpg

Intresting. I like it. But my target crop area was a 3:2 one (to print it in 4x6), so I've done my best in that aspect ratio. The original image is a 4:3 one.

[Leighow]

Well maybe. If you allow me to ignore the 4 x 6 constraint, I would be trying to frame the three windows in black. To do so using your initial post:

1: I dropped the brightness overall in curves
2: Color balanced a bit toward yellow, green, and red (very, very little).
3: I added 1/10 of an inch of black canvas to all sides
4: Recropped the image as shown
5: Isolated the windows and brightened them just a tad.
6: Tried to deepen the blue.

HOWIE

http://members.rogers.com/hleigh/CHURCH.jpg

[Guillermo Freige]

Howie:

why the assimetrical black border, to compensate for the missing image parts?

[Leighow]

Well to balance the image and frame it in black so that it would look complete.
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I did not see any other solution. Of course if the right side had extended into darkness, that might not have been necessary.

Hey look, I am an amateur, this is an amateur's critique. I looked at the dark line down the right hand side that this border introduces, played around (blur, shading), and then decided that it was best to live with it.

[Guillermo Freige]

It was not a critic, only a doubt :)

Probably my poor english was the culprit. probably the right question might be:

"Is the black border there to compensate for missing parts of the image?"

At least that was my intention :)