Basilica Minor Photo

Photographer’s Note

I knew what sort of images I am after when I left home, this time I did get it, I cannot even count how manu times I was there and returned empty handed. This church is the only church in the whole town of Trnava, which can be photographed from all angles, other churches have building around them. This church of St. Nicolaus recently received status of "Basilica Minor".

Focal length 18 mm, F16, 15 seconds. I have used tripod, spirit level, cable release and mirror lock up. Also used 0.9 ND soft grad over the sky and 0.9 ND full over the whole image to achieve longer exposure. I used photoshop CS3 to correct the converging verticals.

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nex (2686) 2009-01-13 6:06 [Comment]

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Adrique (579) 2009-01-16 6:34

Nazdarek, pekny pohlad a pekna obloha, i ked dost sumi.
Saturacia je troska moc, ostrost je tiez silnejsia nez mi je mile (zrejme doostrovanie sposobil ten sum v oblakoch :-)). A zda sa mi to o kusticek preexponovane.
Uprava padajucich linii nie je dobre prevedena - veze su scapene, ta prava je dokonca deformovana. Mury kostola na lavej strane su tiez deformovane.
Zamer bol dobry, ale nevysiel :-(
Adrian

Short English note: good POV and nice sky, although a bit noisy. Saturation is a bit over the edge and so is sharpeing (which probably caused the noise in the sky). The converging vertical correction is not well executed. Quite major deformations in the building´s shape are visible. I think the image is also overexposed.
Good idea which could have been executed better.