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I revisted Christ Church St Laurence which is near Central Railway station here in the Sydney CDB late one overcast afternoon so I could get a little light coming in the many stained glass windows which adorned this little church.

The church has this very interesting and highly polished (but highly reflective) black and white chequer-boarded aisle down the centre of the building. The following are all three image HDR's (0, -2 & +2EV) with the last two processed into monochrome.

Interested in hearing your thoughts...

Aisle


Silvered


Diamond Aisle

#2 is an absolute cracker! You are certainly using your 8mm extremely well.

Only minor issue may be the reflections in the foreground which could be fixed.

The B&W ones are ace, but as Surenj points out the reflections in the foreground are a distraction. The colour one looks too warm to me, the white tiles on the floor appear yellow. Try lowering the temp a touch for a cooler look and what I imagine to be a more natural appearance for a church.

The HDR work is very good, what program are you using?

Good use of the HDR, excellent choice and the processing works well to compliment the subjects.

Thanks guys..

surenj wrote:#2 is an absolute cracker! You are certainly using your 8mm extremely well.
Only minor issue may be the reflections in the foreground which could be fixed.

Geoff M wrote:The B&W ones are ace, but as Surenj points out the reflections in the foreground are a distraction.

Thanks - any tips on how I might start to fix them?

The colour one looks too warm to me, the white tiles on the floor appear yellow. Try lowering the temp a touch for a cooler look and what I imagine to be a more natural appearance for a church.
The HDR work is very good, what program are you using?

From memory I thought those floor tiles were more yellow than white - possibly stained with age? I took at some of the straight shots and I'd say we'd split the difference - they are whiter than in my image above - thanks
Photomatix for all of these.

biggerry wrote:Good use of the HDR, excellent choice and the processing works well to compliment the subjects.

Thanks Gerry

well done. I prefer the b&w ones, and only the square reflection creates a problem. If you had got a bit higher could you have lost that reflection? The reflection from the central stained glass window is ok for me.

lightning wrote:well done. I prefer the b&w ones, and only the square reflection creates a problem. If you had got a bit higher could you have lost that reflection? The reflection from the central stained glass window is ok for me.

I'm not sure to be honest - I was lining up the height of the camera with those flowery carved things at the top of the pews so they'd sort of line up diminishing in the image. I suspect however I'd only have been able to go up about another 40cm or so with my tripod and I'm not sure that would have been high enough to loose the reflection (actually I'm not even sure where that reflection came from ).

I like the first one because of the
colour and I don't mind the reflections
on the floor. The second is also very
good, but I like the colours.

Remorhaz wrote:any tips on how I might start to fix them?

Simple clone job or just copy a part of the middle tiles to both sides...