The New, Vancouver BC, Mormon Temple.

D'Buggs

Not sure if this forum is the *right* home for these. If not, feel free to move.

This thing is HUGE - It takes up a foot-print of 20,000 sg ft and is made from granite. The statue on top is gold and looks life-sized, when viewed from ground level (it's huge too).


1;

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2; Night shot.




All comments welcomed.

Long Train Runnin'

Very cool!

I have to ask, how did you get the stars to come out so clearly it adds a neat effect to the picture.

D'Buggs

Long Train Runnin' wrote:

Very cool!

I have to ask, how did you get the stars to come out so clearly it adds a neat effect to the picture.

That's not stars you're lookin' at.... It's NOISE!
I processed both images in a way that would both embrace AND magnify it.

Thanks for your comments.

Qarik

nice captures..I prefer the 1st one. I realize it is perspective distortion but the 1st thing that jumps out at me is the "crooked" steeple. I think I might prefer the steeple to be straight and the fence line to be "crooked". just a thought.

D'Buggs

Qarik wrote:

nice captures..I prefer the 1st one. I realize it is perspective distortion but the 1st thing that jumps out at me is the "crooked" steeple. I think I might prefer the steeple to be straight and the fence line to be "crooked". just a thought.

Thanks, Qarik.


I too prefer the 1st one and hear what you're saying - I did try cropping 'your way' when editing this and to be frank, it looked like a horse falling over it's front legs while on a full gallop (Read; ass over tea kettle/a HUGE disaster that was going to PLOW into the earth)... Scary shtuff.

I don't have access to the EXIF right now but these were shot pretty wide, somewhere around 17-19 mil. With anything else, I couldn't get a full view of the building without accepting clutter in the foreground; I would have to move across the street that had cars parked on it (even for the night-time shot).

#1 was also shot in the morning with me facing west (sun over my left shoulder). I'll try for an evening shot to see if I can't get a decent perspective with a 35 mil, from the other side of the building.


Thanks again for your comments.

hawkeye978

I too am distracted by the perspective distortion. Did you try to correct the distortion in Photoshop (or equiv) or just try to rotate the image to correct? Rotation won't fix the problem. If you try a lens correction in Photoshop under the Distort menu item under the Filter menu you can take out the keystoning effect. You will lose some of the frame left and right but I think it will make the overall shot stronger.

I like what you have in both shots. Interesting effect using the noise to your advantage.

D'Buggs

hawkeye978 wrote:

I too am distracted by the perspective distortion. Did you try to correct the distortion in Photoshop (or equiv) or just try to rotate the image to correct? Rotation won't fix the problem. If you try a lens correction in Photoshop under the Distort menu item under the Filter menu you can take out the keystoning effect. You will lose some of the frame left and right but I think it will make the overall shot stronger.

I like what you have in both shots. Interesting effect using the noise to your advantage.

Thanks, hawk.

Nope, didn't even try a distortion correction. When I got it here, I thought it looked as if the building was open and willing, to take on whatever the darkened sky could deliver ; )

D'Buggs

I replaced image 1 with this rendition that's been straightened.






It's still got a tiny tilt but if I go more, the long verticle window on the front starts falling away and IMO, really confused the crap out of the image.

Long Train Runnin'

D'Buggs wrote:

That's not stars you're lookin' at.... It's NOISE!
I processed both images in a way that would both embrace AND magnify it.

Thanks for your comments.

Very cool!

D'Buggs

Long Train Runnin' wrote:

Very cool!

Thanks ; )

Nikonic1

Very nice. #1 gets my vote

D'Buggs

Nikonic1 wrote:

Very nice. #1 gets my vote