Church & Window

[MrB]

The church is in the Hughenden Valley in Buckinghamshire - two images combined in Microsoft ICE:



This is the window on the right in the church image above:



Any comments welcomed.

Philip

[Digital]

Philip, very nice images.


Bruce

[Shadowman]

Nice ones.

[MrB]

Bruce and John - thank you very much.

Cheers.
Philip

[JohnRostron]

I have an interest in photographing church windows. I generally take bracketed exposures and then merge, followed by perspective correction. How did you get your rather fine window image?

John

[MrB]

Thank you for your comments and interest, John.

This photo was taken using a hand-held Pentax K-70 (an APS-C DSLR with IBIS) in Av Mode and with a 28-105mm zoom lens. Sometimes I also adopt your approach to exposure, but the lighting here was such that it wasn't really necessary to capture more than one image. The exposure was 1/40s at f/5.6, -1EV and ISO 800. The electric lights were on in the church, giving a warm colour cast to the stonework, whereas the window was in the shade of a tree (as can be seen in the first image), giving it a rather cool colour cast. In PaintShop Pro X9 I adjusted those tints to give what seems a better balance and lifted the brightness of the stonework slightly. It was possible to get some distance away between the pews and shoot at 68mm (102mm FF equiv.), so that only a small amount of correction was required to square up the window. A few other selective tweaks gave the image shown above.

Cheers.
Philip

[JohnRostron]

Thank you for your comments and interest, John.

This photo was taken using a hand-held Pentax K-70 (an APS-C DSLR with IBIS) in Av Mode and with a 28-105mm zoom lens. Sometimes I also adopt your approach to exposure, but the lighting here was such that it wasn't really necessary to capture more than one image. The exposure was 1/40s at f/5.6, -1EV and ISO 800. The electric lights were on in the church, giving a warm colour cast to the stonework, whereas the window was in the shade of a tree (as can be seen in the first image), giving it a rather cool colour cast. In PaintShop Pro X9 I adjusted those tints to give what seems a better balance and lifted the brightness of the stonework slightly. It was possible to get some distance away between the pews and shoot at 68mm (102mm FF equiv.), so that only a small amount of correction was required to square up the window. A few other selective tweaks gave the image shown above.

Cheers.
Philip

Thanks for that information. When I saw the shadow on the window, I thought that it would probably make the exposure and processing simpler. I almost always take bracketed exposures, but it is not always necessary to merge them.

John

[Jim A]

A fine looking church and two very good images. It would additionally be good to see one from low down, just behind a gravestone, with the church towering above. Just a thought.

[MrB]

Thank you, Jim. I'll try to remember that good suggestion when I go there again.

Cheers.
Philip