Notre Dame Cathedral Paris - I Hope A Bit Different

Brody

Taken as dusk approached, I took another series even though my camera already had dozens - The light, shadows were slightly unusual and the clarity better than most days. Comments and thoughts welcome.




Thanks in advance for your feedback, John

W.W. Webster

Brody wrote: »

Please spare me the hairsplitting, nit-picking comments on rotation being off .30 of 1% CCW or other minute pedantic detail. I'm trying to learn and share and not get lost in minutiae... Thanks.

Unfortunately, you bring it on yourself! In work of this quality, there is little scope for critical comment.

ebwest

That's a nice treatment of cathedral.

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Tango

There are three or four comments I could make to help you, but I will spare you my silly talk... they are only of the most basic rules in photography, very hairsplitting.

RuiMLopes

Really different, yes! Nice HDR!

SimpsonBrothers

I like it, but wish there was a sliver of sky above the cross.

Brody

AaronNelson wrote: »

There are three or four comments I could make to help you, but I will spare you my silly talk... they are only of the most basic rules in photography, very hairsplitting.

Hi Aaron,

Then hairsplit a bit please Aaron, I want to learn. That's why I'm here... When I wrote that note you refer to, I was just feeling a bit hammered :cry.

Tango

You take sarcasm very well, but you don't take straight forward C&C very well:D

Man let them hammer you! recognize their point, say thanks, and ask specific questions in which you are wondering about...dont lead off with a statment chastising people before they even speak...:D
If you dont agree with the comment just let them know tactfully...

Honestly, I only had one thing I would point out with your image and that was framing. My post was mainly to just to be a smart ars.
Are you doing anything right? Well of course you are, they are nice images, and your site looks really full of great work...

Brody

To Sir Aaron:

Your wisdom and sage advice heeded - Chastising comment removed. When it was written, my keyboard was getting ruined from my weeping re: my horrid verticles failures.

To Sirs Simpson:

I know not of what you speak?? No Sliver of sky above cross? Actually, you're quite right. It bugged the hell out of me too. Glad you mentioned it, I thought I was just being overly picky - Fixed using transform tool... I had been waiting for two hours for the sun to come out since the clouds were so nice, and I got distracted by a pretty french girl who started talking to me - I almost missed the shot completely, and the on tripod camera had settled down clipping the cross. The sun was gone 10 seconds later, never to return. Always a pretty girl...

Re: HDR in general:

It has HDR but with a twist. I'll describe in case anyone is curious. I start with the first shot (normal exposure) of the triplicate shot for HDR. I layer on the final HDR and reduce it's opacity, to 30% in this case, to kill the flaming glow that HDR too often has. Then I layer on a high structure linear B&W and lower it's opacity, to 13% in this case, to bring back some of the black lines and definition that HDR can wash out or cover with glow. This comment may fall into the 'Who Cares' category, just adding in case someone does and is curious.


Thanks for all your comments and feedback, John

SimpsonBrothers

Brody wrote: »

I'll describe in case anyone is curious

going to have to try that!

Tango

I've been Knighted:encore

I will have my subjects send you a new keyboard:D

W.W. Webster

SimpsonBrothers wrote: »

I like it, but wish there was a sliver of sky above the cross.

Given the 'rules' set down, I resisted the temptation to say so previously!