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Ripon Cathedral (1)

Posted by
Curly (South Shields, United Kingdom) on 15 February 2010 in Architecture and Portfolio.

Ripon Cathedral in North Yorkshire, shot taken last year on a long weekend break away from South Shields. I love the place, so I went back dragged out the RAW file and created this HDR in Photomatix.

More over the next couple of days.

PENTAX K100D 1/20 second F/4.0 ISO 800 18 mm

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PascalXLD from Rennes, France

Superbe avec un traitement bien poussé

Bonne journée

15 Feb 2010 6:36am

CM Kwan from NT, Hong Kong

I think your original picture is great. Your HDR skills move it from great to excellent!

15 Feb 2010 7:02am

erfi anugrah from Singapore, Singapore

Awesome HDR!

15 Feb 2010 7:08am

jeanclaude from st mande 94160, France

5*

15 Feb 2010 7:23am

Sarito from Basingstoke, United Kingdom

This is amazing.. love the details..

15 Feb 2010 8:53am

Hiro from Kyoto, Japan

I like the atmosphere. Your way of the treatment is suitable for this subject.

15 Feb 2010 8:57am

Nigel from Avening, United Kingdom

Lovely

15 Feb 2010 9:53am

Pjer from Newtown, Slovenia

Great details, nice!

15 Feb 2010 10:00am

MrsAmber from West Wickham, United Kingdom

Excellent shot.

15 Feb 2010 10:33am

sil from Italy

Stunning! Great details too!

15 Feb 2010 10:36am

grouser from Ludlow, United Kingdom

The strong HDR works well on the architecture emphasising the structural elements. Nice symmetry

15 Feb 2010 10:46am

Zora Zoé - sichtbar fotogrativ from Berlin, Germany

Unbelievable brilliant, so many detail to see, just WOW!! :-))

15 Feb 2010 1:41pm

Eric Cousineau from Sherwood Park, Canada

Great detail! Well done Curly! ;-)

15 Feb 2010 1:57pm

pascal from Bollene, France

too much color for me......but I like the effect !!!!!
bye

15 Feb 2010 2:01pm

LESLIE from norwich, United Kingdom

Fabulous details bought out by the HDR processing .... More please Curly

15 Feb 2010 2:27pm

Julie from Easton, United States

Just beautiful! The colors are excellent and the detail is just awesome! Great job!

15 Feb 2010 2:43pm

keith from killarney, Ireland

awesome, just awesome

15 Feb 2010 3:10pm

john4jack from Corvallis, Oregon, United States

Superb capture. Outstanding composition.

15 Feb 2010 3:11pm

Shahryar from Isfahan, Iran

superb shot :)

15 Feb 2010 3:35pm

---------Photo-Spice---------- from Konstanz, Germany

Wow, enormous feel of depth in this image!!!
Could have been a painting.

Well done, JH

15 Feb 2010 3:50pm

Self-Indulgence from Chicagoland, United States

Excellent detail. It's absolutely beautiful inside the cathedral and you've captured that. I hope you will be sharing your chinese new year photos too!

15 Feb 2010 4:04pm

@Self-Indulgence: I'm not confident, just started processing them and I don't think I've found much joy yesterday. The streets were thronged and it was shoulder to shoulder stuff, hardly room to even get the camera to the eye! Tried a few shooting over the heads of everyone but it doesn't look good I'm afraid.

Gary from Doylestown, United States

Very nice. Maybe sometime you could post a side by side. I know their is a photographic term for that, anyway same photograph no hdr on one side and hdr on the other side.

15 Feb 2010 4:35pm

QUIM from Lisboa, Portugal

Exellent detail!very very nice!

15 Feb 2010 5:12pm

Marie-Jezaria from Paris, France

Bralliant details and stunning colors ! 5*

15 Feb 2010 5:27pm

Susan from Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States

Nice job graham....isn't it great now, to go back and find old raw files, that you can play with like this??? wish I'd always shot in raw!!!!

15 Feb 2010 5:28pm

uvaraj from United States

magnificent HDR. great work here :)

15 Feb 2010 5:32pm

alex centrella from California, United States

simply stunning !

15 Feb 2010 5:47pm

hgmartins photography from Ontario, GTA, Canada

Great HDR!! How do you get your HDR so "clean" of noise? Almost looks like a painting, Excellent work!

15 Feb 2010 6:18pm

@hgmartins photography: Imagenomic's Noiseware plug-in, the stand alone free Community Edition is worth every penny too!

Dawn from Maryland, United States

Wonderful processing and great angle. Love that detail! 5 stars!

15 Feb 2010 6:46pm

Philip from South Wales, United Kingdom

Unusual but well worthwhile treatment of the Cathedral. I particularly like the raised organ and the very dramatic red ceiling above it. I look forward to more photos over the next few days.

15 Feb 2010 7:14pm

Jacqueline from Belgium

wow, imposing and impressive, very beautiful treatment of the photograph, I like :)

15 Feb 2010 7:17pm

kiwisa from North Shore, New Zealand

Beautifully processed to accentuate all those wonderful details.

15 Feb 2010 7:40pm

ben from Germany

really cool...!!!

15 Feb 2010 8:10pm

Ted from South Wales, United Kingdom

very pencil like?
Have you taken a look at this guy yet? http://www.stuckincustoms.com

15 Feb 2010 8:51pm

@Ted: Yes, I go there often, he's an inspiration.

Denise from Duncannon, United States

Very neat processing, I bet music in this church sounds superb....

15 Feb 2010 9:21pm

manos from Athens, Greece

Very dramatic mood !

15 Feb 2010 9:42pm

Petra from Tilburg, Netherlands

wow, very impressive shot

15 Feb 2010 9:57pm

kate from lincolnshire, United Kingdom

looks like a real piece of art!! beautiful!!

15 Feb 2010 9:58pm

Sandy Weston from Madison, Maine, United States

The HDR in this brings out all the wonderful details in this photo! The textures of the materials that made this Cathedral, stand out beautifully.

15 Feb 2010 10:09pm

David from Detroit, United States

What an amazing HDR photo! This is a photo that matches the grandeur of the cathedral.

15 Feb 2010 10:09pm

Reflecteur from Gothenburg, Sweden

Amazing shot!

15 Feb 2010 10:12pm

Raskolniikov from London, United Kingdom

It is slightly tilting to the right but the colour and detail you have been able to bring out in HDR is superb. Possibly a slight overexposure of the window in the top left but everything else is perfect.

15 Feb 2010 10:24pm

@Raskolniikov: Not wishing to sound like a boring pedant but if you scroll the page up or down you will find that the kneeler cushion, the hand rail, the steps, the altar top, and the rood screen, all line perfectly horizontally with the edge of your browser window. I used the ruler tool in Photoshop to ensure that they did. The window is very over exposed, I accept that. it was a late morning shot and that window faces east towards the rising sun, hence all of the shadows are facing the viewer.

Adam from Adelaide, Australia

Incredible use of HDR! Was this from just one photo, or several taken on a tripod? I'm guessing it was handheld given the ISO-800.

15 Feb 2010 11:23pm

Mirza Ahmad from Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thank you for sharing Curly.

16 Feb 2010 12:01am

Michael from Shell Village, United Kingdom

Shame about the top of the arch Curly, you cut it off. The light upper left is a bit of a distraction don't you think ?

16 Feb 2010 12:22am

Elaine Hancock from Rockville, United States

Beautiful color and sharp detail.

16 Feb 2010 12:36am

Steve Rice from Olympia, United States

Beautiful!

16 Feb 2010 1:10am

Ajay from Pune, India

Magnificent with so many details.

16 Feb 2010 1:35am

Bob from New Jersey, United States

most impressive

16 Feb 2010 3:57am

Scott Collins from Ontario, California, United States

Stunning photo. Wow!

16 Feb 2010 4:57am

Charles Dastodd from Chicago, United States

wow! this is a really special image. i love the tones and details. beautifully captured and processed. :)

16 Feb 2010 5:44am

Anastasiya from Kiev, Ukraine

Absolutely stunning!!

16 Feb 2010 6:15am

Albert from Hamburg, Germany

I love HDR in cathedrals. This is very cool. The light nis nice and the details pop out.

16 Feb 2010 9:15am

Anthony Morgan Lambert from Bielefeld(old West Wales boy), Germany

Looks like a painting !!

16 Feb 2010 10:15am

Ralph Jones from Detroit, United States

Nice subject for HDR.

16 Feb 2010 12:45pm

Mascha from Kootstertille, Netherlands

Impressive !!

16 Feb 2010 9:00pm

Raskolniikov from London, United Kingdom

sorry mate, your background is tilted to the right, no matter how many rulers you proclaim you used.

16 Feb 2010 9:03pm

MadScientist from Düsseldorf, Germany

I almost missed this! Spectacular!

16 Feb 2010 11:02pm

marc from Granby, Canada

splendid HDR well done......

17 Feb 2010 1:58am

Hilde Morin from Portland, Oregon, United States

Very beautiful...Agree with Gary, side by side would be a great comparison.

17 Feb 2010 3:38pm

shoti from somewhere in, China

an image of contrasting appearance: futuristic medieval. I love the fine details you've captured here. nicely composed too.

18 Feb 2010 6:17am

Mici from Tg Mures, Romania

Love your cathedral series, feels like in a story, nice shots and great job on the work.

21 Feb 2010 5:48pm

Eric Rousset from Grasse, France

HDR works so nicely in interior of churches ;-)), so detailed n textured results my friend

23 Feb 2010 11:00am

Belen Olsen from Sweden

You really have nice HDR, the colors in this one are amazing

23 Feb 2010 4:28pm

PENTAX K100D
1/20 second
F/4.0
ISO 800
18 mm

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