Prayer in the Blue Mosque

[rpcrowe]

Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey

[Shadowman]

Very challenging shot. Did you try to bracket your exposures?

[Digital]

Nice image Richard.



Bruce

[FootLoose]

Nice composition, Richard

[IzzieK]

Love the comp, Richard... very interesting shot.

[bnnrcn]

Very nice Richard

[John 2]

Nice shot Richard. Agree with John, you've handled the inside /outside lighting well.

[rpcrowe]

I did bracket but I did not composite the images into an HDRI. I just picked out what I though was the best of the exposures and worked from there. My main concern was to get some detail in the window area and not have it blown out. I then worked on the surrounding areas and the man praying to bring them up from a silhouette to where there was some detail.

I realize that there is some noise in the praying subject but, I just let that go after some minimal noise reduction.

I would normally have used a flash to fill light the man praying but, the Blue Mosque is an active house of worship so I thought that it would be more respectful to shoot only available light...

I did use flash-fill with some shots in the Hagia Sophia. opposite from the Blue Mosque, since it is no longer a house of worship (after being a Byzantine Cathedral and a mosque). It is now a museum...



ISO 2000 1/60 second @ f/4

See my Istanbul gallery at: http://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/Other/Istanbul/i-HRDXGvr

[Shadowman]

I did bracket but I did not composite the images into an HDRI. I just picked out what I though was the best of the exposures and worked from there. My main concern was to get some detail in the window area and not have it blown out. I then worked on the surrounding areas and the man praying to bring them up from a silhouette to where there was some detail.

I realize that there is some noise in the praying subject but, I just let that go after some minimal noise reduction.

I would normally have used a flash to fill light the man praying but, the Blue Mosque is an active house of worship so I thought that it would be more respectful to shoot only available light...

I did use flash-fill with some shots in the Hagia Sophia. opposite from the Blue Mosque, since it is no longer a house of worship (after being a Byzantine Cathedral and a mosque). It is now a museum...



ISO 2000 1/60 second @ f/4

See my Istanbul gallery at: http://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/Other/Istanbul/i-HRDXGvr

Nice, those high ceilings make it hard to use bounce light.

[Shadowman]

Richard,

Nice gallery.

[rpcrowe]

Nice, those high ceilings make it hard to use bounce light.

The Joe Demb Flash Diffuser Pro modifies the flash and doesn't result in the "deer in the headlights" look...