Lincoln Catheral Nave

[John 2]

We visited relatives in the Nottingham area last W/E and managed a day in Lincoln on Saturday. Too crowded and contrasty on the day for much but I thought this shot in the Cathedral was worth processing. C&C appreciated.

Fuji X-T1 plus Samyang (Rokinon in the U.S.) 10mm.

[Shadowman]

Interesting processing, nicely captured.

[xpatUSA]

A personal thanks for that shot. I lived in Lincoln for 15 years or so before emigrating.

[zkogut]

Beautiful shot!

[Wandjina]

Nice photo John. It has a surreal feel about it. But maybe that is how churches and cathedrals are meant to feel!
I like the composition with the leading lines from the chairs guiding the eye to the brightened alter area. However I am in two minds as to whether or not it would look better with the two steel posts in the foreground cloned out. Then, maybe, crop from the bottom up to the line of chairs on the left hand side so that the foreground is nice and tidy. Just a thought

[Manfred M]

John - another interesting piece and I kept looking at it trying to figure out if I liked it or not.

I think I've come to the conclusion that I like the effect, but don't like the image that you are using. With the wide angle, I find you are a touch too far back and the nave is simply too far away to really have that great an impact on the image. It's a hard call; the wide angle shows the magnificent architecture and vaulting, the wide angle gives you a lot of depth, but the shot almost seems to be about the chairs.

I wonder how the shot would have turned out had you been closer to the front or had used a longer lens.

[Wandjina]

Manfred has got me thinking!
Maybe if it was cropped so as to reduce the chairs a little, but also crop it into portrait mode.
I hope you don't mind me messing with your photo, John

[IzzieK]

I like that you showed the vastness of the cathedral, John...it gives me something to try which I haven't tried before with my new lens...lots of possibilities for the crop there but I like the original better...

[John 2]

Thanks for all the thoughts and comments.

Martin, agree about the posts. There has been some cloning in that the posts were originally supporting a bright blue tape closing off the nave because as you can see there is something going on at the far end. The chair legs as a BG made cloning the posts more difficult than the image was worth though. It would have required reconstructive surgery. The crop you suggest is classic and I have just such a version but what struck me was not just the vastness of the place and the heroic architecture created at a time when technology as we know it played no part, it was that as a space, it was virtually empty - hence the inclusion of the chairs. Not sure of my own motives for trying to show that but that is what I had in mind.

Manfred you can see from my comments above, that the inclusion of the chairs was deliberate but no, as a record of the area around the alter it fails. I was aware of that because the purely mono version (the original intention) was a bit uninspiring, hence resorting to the treatment. Plus, I'm bound to admit that just having acquired the 10mm lens, I'm probably still influenced by the novelty of it. Must do better.

[bnnrcn]

Hi John. May be your title is a bit misleading because it says 'nave' , but the image on itself with a different processing looks very nice and impressive to me

[wilgk]

I like the vast feel created but am in the remove the posts camp.

[John 2]

I give in. Posts removed.

Thanks all for the continued comments.

[Wandjina]

I give in. Posts removed.

Thanks all for the continued comments.

I really like it, John

[Ziggy]

Nice shot John. Posts removed works for me.

[Rebel]

Cool shot John, that place looks massive.

[Manfred M]

You nailed it with the re-edit, John. As the others have already noted, this one works really well.

[John 2]

Thanks Martin, Jim, Matt and Manfred. I have a feeling that this might work better as a print than a PDI.