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Another week, another lovely church

Continuing my theme of visiting interesting and beautiful buildings here in the city I took a trip to St James' Church, King Street.

Completed in 1822, as part of the major construction programme initiated by Governor Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is now the oldest existing church building in Sydney.

As with my visit to St Andrews Cathedral the people here were extremely friendly and helpful, they allowed me to take photographs all over the place and even unlocked the doors to upstairs for me so I could take some shots from up high.

As before I used my new tripod (and I'm really starting to appreciate having this new ballhead with friction control for finer more manageable micro adjustments) and shot three (or four or five) exposure bracketed sequences to later post process using HDR techniques if necessary. Like most of these buildings they are relatively dark inside but with super bright highlights where the windows are.

C&C Welcomed...

Golden Inner Sanctum

NIKON D7000 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 2 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Curve

NIKON D7000 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 1 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Sky of Diamonds

NIKON D7000 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 1.3 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Glow

NIKON D7000 + 8.0-16.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 @ 8 mm, 1 sec at f/11, ISO 100

You are certainly getting great access to these churches Rodney.
Sorry to have missed you this week.

colin_12 wrote:You are certainly getting great access to these churches Rodney.
Sorry to have missed you this week.

All good - the girls and I had a lot of fun (even when I dragged them all over the place to take photos - they were very patient with me )...

I'll post something up for the trip soon...

Nice work Rodney.

You may want to consider whether the church wants to run these pictures on their online gallery?

surenj wrote:Nice work Rodney.
You may want to consider whether the church wants to run these pictures on their online gallery?

Yep thanks Suren - I contacted St Andrews Cathedral after that shoot and emailed them some images with the offer to supply them with whatever hires ones they wanted - which they were very happy with so I burnt a CD with the lot and took it over and chatted with them for a while one day (they actually needed some images for some stuff they were doing so they were very pleased).

I did the same for St James although I only emailed them on the weekend so havn't had a response yet.

I prefer the first one.