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St. Paul's Cathedral
Uploaded on: July 28, 2008
Downtown Birmingham, Alabama.
I have always admired the OUTSIDE architecture of this church with its very high walls and ornate steeples, but had never seen the inside. I wanted to know if it resembled any of the older cathedrals in Europe. I contacted the secretary and asked if I could shoot inside and she welcomed me to to do so and gave me some of the history of this over 100-year-old cathedral. For being located deep in the heart of Dixie, it is quite impressive. The stained glass windows that cannot be seen in this photo are beautiful. I experimented with my settings a lot to get variety and capture the light from that top window and this is the best of this sanctuary view.
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Lover1969 says,
This photograph is just stunning! I love the lighting, colors, perspective, composition, and the sharpness. Just outstanding! Great work here!
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JuliaB has offered this critique,
Did you do any photoshop work on the light and dark areas in the church? If not, your multisegment light meter did an amazing job. There are no under/over exposed areas in this, a truly inspired example of how to properly use your camera’s power to expose a beautiful scene.
I absolutely love that ray of light coming from the window, I might have slightly burned the areas right outside the light ray a bit to bring it out more, but that’s just me, nothing to fault here at all.
Even the amount of the edge columns are perfectly identical, it shows you took time to line this up perfectly. Your choice of f9 was just enough to allow a long exposure not to shift, yet small enough to maintain the details. Great work, simply great.
Are there better photos of the inside of this type of church? Perhaps, but only if someone was using a bellowed lens for architecture, was lit with many lights, and shot on a 4×5 camera with positive film. You managed to capture this with digital, no lights, and at 18mm focal length. I am impressed.
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travelndogs says,
This an inspiring photo. I love everything about it. I have been there and would have never thought it could be captured so beautifully in a photo.
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MaryleeUSA has offered this critique,
Wow….........You NAILED this IMO! Gorgeous lighting! I MEAN that is some lighting!
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MaryleeUSA says,
Oh man! I am so sorry! It used to be you had to click and choose critique or it was defaulted to “comment”. i didnt’ see the stars and now it shows ZERO! I totally screwed up. I will see if Admin can delete this. it won’t let me assign stars now. I am SO SORRY!
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MaryleeUSA says,
I sent admin a message telling them this was meant to be a comment and not a critique, and asked that it be corrected. Once again…So Sorry!
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Architect says,
Really an excellent architectural shot. I would have done just a tad more perspective correction to get the outer columns perfectly straight, as I would have done with a 4×5 view camera. However, that would result in the loss of a small portion of the upper arches. A slightly wider angle lens, or a further back POV might have been a bit better.
You centered the building perfectly, although the pews are slightly out of position. I would rank this a solid 4.