john_r_smith Posted July 6, 2006 Share #1 Posted July 6, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Lumix LC1, 28mm, B/W jpeg St Neot has some of the best medieval stained glass in the south-west. This view shows the fine C15 south aisle, on a very hot day last weekend. Fortunately the pub is next door! John Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Hi john_r_smith, Take a look here St Neot Church, Bodmin Moor. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
elmarman Posted July 6, 2006 Share #2 Posted July 6, 2006 as the image was taken on a digital, could you not have straightened the vertical of the tower digitally? I learnt how to do it in photoshop 7 using the 'measure tool' and canvas,rotate arbitary. In my darkroom I have to tilt the enlarger baseboard to do it ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r_smith Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share #3 Posted July 7, 2006 Peter yes, a perfectly valid criticism. I was downslope of the church in my shooting position, so of course I was in big trouble from the converging vertical problem. Oh, for a shift lens! (or a cherry-picker to stand in). I have messed around in PS correcting perspective here at work, but frankly I've never liked the results much. I decided to live with the leaning tower of St Neot on this one because the whole picture was essentially pictorial rather than a strict architectural record, and in some ways I quite liked the old fashioned look - hence the high-key treatment. I should have used my old view camera with its rising front, perhaps John Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael-IIIf Posted July 7, 2006 Share #4 Posted July 7, 2006 John, Shots of churches often leave me cold but this one is very pleasing, lovely composition and great tones. It's funny how we obsess about correcting the converging verticals in photographs and yet when I use CAD to create a visual of a building, or object, I set the verticals to converge to make it look real. Funny world. Like contemporary musicians adding vinyl-like clicks to their digitally recorded music. I wonder will we be adding fake dust spots to our digital images in time Michael Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rona!d Posted July 7, 2006 Share #5 Posted July 7, 2006 John, good image, excecpt that there is too less sky for my taste, the building is pressed in the framing if you know what i mean. This is a shot for a 4x5". I will be in Cornwall in some weeks, you have to tell me the nice places ! Best, Ronald Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_r_smith Posted July 7, 2006 Author Share #6 Posted July 7, 2006 Michael and Ronald thanks for taking the time to comment. You are right, the shot is squeezed a bit - this is because I simply couldn't get any further back, and of course you can't just swap to a 24mm lens on the LC1 (if only). To be honest, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is one of my less successful pictures. But you know how it is, I really liked it last Sunday, thought it was still pretty good on Wednesday, but by today I am rapidly going off it Why isn't there some way you can have second thoughts and delete a posting? Ronald, the weather here is great at the moment, bright with some great clouds so let's hope it holds up for your trip. John Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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