HDR Inside Gloucester Cathedral at Christmas (2014)

[kennysarmy]

Had kept these two back in case I entered them in to the TP POTY OPEN round...but entered something else instead so here they are:

Gloucester Cathedral by Jeff, on Flickr

Gloucester Cathedral with Christmas Trees by Jeff, on Flickr

 

[banjokat]

wow, love the first one

 

[Kodiak Qc]

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Yes, this the right place and the right way to use HDR…very nice!
If only the verticals…

 

[Bobsyeruncle]

The first one is superb. Lots of detail and extremely sharp

 

[kennysarmy]

wow, love the first one

The first one is superb. Lots of detail and extremely sharp

Thanks.

 

[kennysarmy]

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Yes, this the right place and the right way to use HDR…very nice!
If only the verticals…

Thanks.
The verticals don't bother me - I find correcting them removes too much from the image - I can't afford a proper tilt shift lens.

Nothing personal against you but I do find too many people get hung up on the converging vertical issue....

 

[Kodiak Qc]

… I find correcting them removes too much from the image - I can't afford a proper tilt shift lens.

That is the idea if you can't afford a proper tilt shift lens, keystoning will cost
some parts of the image and that's why one should compose loosely… to
have spare pixels for the operation.

Nothing personal against you… but I do find too many people get hung up on the converging vertical issue....

Don't worry, I do not recognize any kind of hostility from you! ;-)…
I am possibly the most insisting critique on the subject and that's because
this is where the mastery as it is in tonal range. WB etc!

 

[owenb]

Love the Cathedral my local also great shots

 

[kennysarmy]

That is the idea if you can't afford a proper tilt shift lens, keystoning will cost
some parts of the image and that's why one should compose loosely… to
have spare pixels for the operation.

Don't worry, I do not recognize any kind of hostility from you! ;-)…
I am possibly the most insisting critique on the subject and that's because
this is where the mastery as it is in tonal range. WB etc!

The second was shot with a 14mm lens on my Fuji XE-2 - so there was no possibility of composing any looser....I welcome you to take a copy of the image from Flickr and show me how you would correct the verticals -

 

[Kodiak Qc]

…I welcome you to take a copy of the image and show me how you would correct the verticals.

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I thank you for your trust!

 

[kennysarmy]

It looks a little bit more "squashed" but it's not bad.....although I do think quality will be lost especially across the top of the image as you pull the pixels apart...

 

[Kodiak Qc]

…although I do think quality will be lost especially across the top of the image as you pull the pixels apart...

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as I said:
— keystoning will cost some parts of the image and that's why one should
compose loosely… so to have spare pixels for the operation.