Church of our Lady

[AndrewF]

Decided to take the afternoon off work today and popped by the Catholic church to take some photos. These are just two of many from today, and I think I'll be going back next week to do some more shots in there.

Here's the interior of the Church of our Lady:

Here's one of the stained glass windows:

For anyone who picked up on the distortion in the first shot, it was done using a fisheye lens and then de-fished. It's also three images merged into an HDR shot that's hopefully been kept tastefully tame .

I did a bunch of stained glass photos, but the second shot turned out the best. This is also an HDR made from 2 exposures.

 

[Zoom]

Fabulous shot, Andrew, really gives the proper scale feeling!

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

love them! I wondered how you got the effect of the first one!

 

[wcladymacbeth]

Pretty church... and nice photos

 

[FoxyWench]

thats a beautiful church.

 

[bubbatd]

Very neat !! I hope the pews are filled on Sundays ! I used to love wandering into different churches just to reflect /// sadly most are locked today . Luckily though when daughter Amy and I were in New York years ago , we were able to go into " The Little Church around the corner " . My parents were married there and I was baptisted there . It was neat to reflect and light a few candles for our loved ones . It's a sweet church if anyone has a chance to visit .

 

[Dekka]

Nice, I picked up on the HDR before reading thats what it was. But yes its very tasteful

 

[Barb04]

Wow, that church pic is spectacular. I don't know anything about photography, but love what you've done.

 

[AndrewF]

Thanks, Zoom, Baxter'smybaby, wcladymacbeth & Foxywench.

Thanks, Grammy. What I personally like about this church - aside from its beauty - is the fact that they welcome people to come in and appreciate/photograph the stained glass/art/interior so long as it's while they're open (which happens to be every day).

Thanks, Dekka. I generally avoid HDR like the plague, but in some instances, there's no alternative. The software I used for this HDR is like doing multiple exposures in-camera (subtle effect) and the tone-mapping seems pretty tame. The only down-side is it outputs small jpg's.

Thanks, Barb.

 

[smkie]

Breathtaking. I will be most looking forward to see more!
THat first one almost makes me feel dizzy. WOW I do not know how you got such height and width at the same time.

 

[AndrewF]

Thanks, Smkie. I'm going to be going back to shoot some more of the church at some point next week. It was one of those things where I tried a couple of different ideas and I now have a better clue of what works (for instance, I like having some detail around the stained glass instead of just a black void).

Most of the shots I have from friday are somewhat similar....big views or stained glass. There's a couple of other art-works in the church I'd like to focus on, now that I've had a decent walk through. I didn't even get to shooting the pipes on the organ yet