Lincoln Cathedral

Sunday was an ADAPS coach trip to Lincoln. Here are two interior shots of the cathedral. They are both single images from the K-5 with 12-24mm lens.

They both work very well John.No end of detail and you are drawn up into the images.

Best regards

There is nothing wrong with the second. However I prefer the first, I think it's the low shooting position.

I like the first one John. Especially how you have treated the window tones.

Thanks for the comments.

I meant to add that with Image 1 I corrected the converging verticals using Photoshop CS5. The procedure after doing Levels was:
1. Change background layer to Layer 0
2. Select All
3. Edit>Transform>Distort
4. Accept
5. Crop to size.
6. Unsharp Mask
7. Stroke white line round image (I have made an action for this so I just press F2)
8. Save As

I do like the deep brown tones, especially in the second. We don't often see these colours reproduced photographically, and also there's nice clear detail to observe as the gaze recedes towards the rear.

The columns in No 1 look to be veering outwards towards the tops a bit.

Did you catch these handheld John ?

you also need to 'skew' the right hand side of the imsge down slightly as the building is lower on the lefthand side

The first was supported on a lectern, so quite solid. The second was hand held, relying on a suitable ISO and the SR system to aid stability. In the second case the shot was deliberately under-exposed and then lifted slightly to bring it within the capabilities of most monitors. It started off with black values of about 2 in the darkest areas.

Good photos, John. Although I haven't been to Lincoln, having visited many other cathedrals, I can imagine that your images are faithful to the actual colours and lighting there.

I think this is an effect caused by correcting perspective to make vertical lines just too vertical! When we see a tall building from a low viewpoint, our perception leads us to expect its vertical parallel lines to converge slightly. The effect diminishes with distance, so it is greater when we are close to (or inside) the building. It is greatly exaggerated by wide lenses, making the perspective look unnatural in an image, and correction needs to be applied. However, even most PP tutorials encourage us to restore the verticals without considering viewpoint, and the result can sometimes make the top of a building appear to be wider than the base. Horizontal perspective convergence gives depth to a scene in a two dimensional image and, similarly, vertical convergence gives the impression of height. So retaining an appropriate subtle amount, rather than making verticals exactly vertical, can give a more natural look to a photo of a tall building taken from a low viewpoint. Difficulty comes in deciding what amount is appropriate.

Philip

I like no 1 but I think I would crop the left side close to the centre of the pillar to match the right and centre it up and straighten it as it is sloping down to the left a tad.