It's Already 2AM: 33nd Edition... Time for monk3y to post some J-Girls!!

Chet wrote in post #15506796
Is that Antonio Allegri da Correggio's work? I'm a fan.

This is Michaelangelo

Oh, I thought he came later then this.

vipergts831 wrote in post #15506803
Yeah I tried to take as many without the guards coming my way. Tony it seems like the back area didn't have what seemed like a mesh wall when you went. I have a picture of it that I got when I took one if Mayra in there.

Yes the last judgement did not have any mesh, just four guards preventing people from touching, unfortunately the Pieta also has the bullet proofed glass, that was open in the 70's and 80's.

Watch the old movie the agony and the ecstasy, Heston as Michaelangelo and RexHarrison as the pope.

The pieta, with reflections on the bullet proofed glasses, all the images I shared here are not fully processed were posted to my smugmug while on travel

I was there in the early 90's and I remember it being behind glass back then.

dgrPhotos wrote in post #15506879
I was there in the early 90's and I remember it being behind glass back then.

Yup, a deranged tourist hacked the statue with an axe or hammer, chipped I believe the nose and they placed it behind the thick glass.

A hand held night fountain shot at iso 5000! With flash fill in, Sol, Madrid, not fully processed, can use some NR

laxlife1234 wrote in post #15505517
Yup, its always nice to see his work and he also posts on here from time to time. If you haven't checked out ricks work he does a lot of cool studio stuff AND he posts in this thread on occasion

Rick?? Rick who? Haha I'd like to see his stuff!

Harm wrote in post #15505416
mirror lock up can be done in the menu part of your camera.

The difference between Live View and Mirror Lock up, is that you can focus manually (and/or automatically) with live view, but you can't with mirror lock up. But it will keep your sensor active, so it can warm up and give extra noise, and eat up battery power.

If you were to use a telephoto lens, you hook up the lens to the tripod, so with live view, you still get that tiny mirror/shutter movement which could cause a minute vibration / amplify at slow speed camera shots.

IS is image stabiliser. Lenses will have a tiny motor whirring away to "stabilise a photo" even if there isn't anything to stabilise, it is best to turn it off (button on the side of the lens).

Sweet, thanks so much for your help!

Silent mode? Yet to try that one out...

tonyniev wrote in post #15506859
The pieta, with reflections on the bullet proofed glasses, all the images I shared here are not fully processed were posted to my smugmug while on travel

The only work to have Michelangelo's signature because he completed it I believe at age 24 and many doubted such great work was of his at such an age. It is still behind bullet proof glass.

Harm wrote in post #15507103
Silent mode? Yet to try that one out...

I used it for most of the trip as we spent quite a lot of time in basilicas. Came in very handy.

tonyniev wrote in post #15506886
Yup, a deranged tourist hacked the statue with an axe or hammer, chipped I believe the nose and they placed it behind the thick glass.

The Pieta was damaged by Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian-born Australian geologist, on 21 May 1972. Toth apparently spent a bit too much time under the outback sun without a hat. He eluded guards, lept a balustrade, and attacked the Pieta with a heavy ball-peen hammer while screaming that he was the risen Jesus Christ. His reason for the attack? Michelangelo's Jesus did not look like him.

To was never charged with a crime. He was held without charges for 6½ months, at which time the court declared him a menace to society and sent him to an asylum (all without a trial, mind you—see my previous post about the Vatican Police and courts).

In his third year (very Biblical) he was released through the efforts of his family and the Australian consul. Immediately upon release his passport was revoked and he was deported back to Australia as being an undesireable alien.

He lived as a recluse in Wentworth Falls, NSW, in the Blue Mountains until suffering a major stroke in 2000. Since then, he has live in a nursing facility in Sydney.

Interestingly, it was during the restoration of his damage that a hidden and previously unknown monogram of Michelangelo was discovered in Mary's hand. Think of it as Michelangelo's copyright notice.

natalieerachel wrote in post #15507013
Sweet, thanks so much for your help!

No problem, Natalie.