This photo was taken on September 3, 2005 in Salisbury, England, GB, using a Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z5.
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Atreus, xjyxjy, mtnrose, Auntie K, and 16 other people added this photo to their favorites.
xjyxjy (82 months ago | reply)
Great pic! Captures the disproportion between the grandeur of the Gothic space and our own incongruous relationship to it. I specially like the elements introduced by the priest - his movement, fancy dress (link between the past and the present) and his curiosity that there are actually real people sitting on those unfitting chairs.
Must also say: View it large!!
GFR (82 months ago | reply)
it doesn't grab me. I'm not sure if the columns are not straight and need to be corrected in the image, or if it is the chairs an people.
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Fred [feukiou] [deleted] (82 months ago | reply)
I'd like to see monks whipping (?) themselves with nettles (?).
Here those people are spoiling the cathedral effect
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The New No. 2 (82 months ago | reply)
This is a nice shot but this is an example where you could improve it by making the vertical columns appear vertical in your shot. It's something that you could take care of when you are shooting but it is also an issue that is easily correctable in post processing. It is especially noticeable when the skewed lines are right next to the edge of the picture. I think I would have voted for a save too...
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JoshuaDavisPhotography (82 months ago | reply)
Well the colums would nicer straight, maybe try photoshoping it, and it may be nicer without the people in, there for me distracts beuty and grandur of the photo.
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willgrant (82 months ago | reply)
the lack of symmetry annoys me, line it up or wreck it completely - don't tease me with nearly-symmetrical!
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xjyxjy (82 months ago | reply)
Haha! You deserve everything you get for submitting the pic to DeleteMe! Like chucking your beating heart into a pool full of piranhas ;-) "The people ... distracts beuty and grandur" - well, indeed...
kswanson (82 months ago | reply)
not bad
saveme
maz hewitt (82 months ago | reply)
cool, I've got one of these too.
Your image is a bit flat. The building distracts us from the much more interesting vicker.
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inian.moorthy (82 months ago | reply)
ok. i think the picture could you a little more warmth
Urban cow-boy (82 months ago | reply)
Hope you went to confess when taking this picture ;-)
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paddysat (82 months ago | reply)
I think there was potential here. I don't think that this is the best angle of that interior.
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DoubleGrande (82 months ago | reply)
It's very nice, but I've seen too many similar shots with nicer perspective and less business going on for it to feel special.
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wit (82 months ago | reply)
@ The New No 2
The only post procesing done on this photograph wa to try and adjust the crop so that the horizontals were horizontal (there was a slight tilt on the original which meant the floor appeared to tilt up from bottom right to top left). With tall pillars such as you get in this building getting both sets to look vertical is impossible on the wide angle lens. I've just checked this and found the right hand pillar need to be a clockwise rotation to become absolutely straight, while the left hand pillars require a counterclockwise rotation, ergo your suggestion of getting both pillars straight is impossible without the use of the perspective tool which then makes the image less natural. the eye normal expects to see long lines lead to a vanishing point.
ElseKramer (82 months ago | reply)
I love the light playing on the arches on the LHS...what a beautiful building. Why on earth did they put such hideous chairs in???
I find the people & chairs distract a bit too much from the strength of the photograph (the light and the beautiful structure)
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wit (82 months ago | reply)
Didn't really think about the chairs at the time but now you mention it they reall aren't in keeping are they. I guess a lot of the original pews have been lost or destroyed over the years and these were a cheap and easily moveable replacement (if you need ths space for an event then pews would be difficult to move). Thinking about it those chairs are probably the only thing they got wrong at Salisbury.
wit (82 months ago | reply)
Adding ElseKramer's tag, looks like she forgot
wit (82 months ago | reply)
@xjyxjy
Oh I know what I'm getting into with deleteme! believe me I'm one of the admin. Looks like this ones gonna get kicked when they can finally be bothered to pull their fingers out and vote!
The New No. 2 (82 months ago | reply)
Even with vertical columns you still have a vanishing point. One issue is seperate from another.
Here's what I would have done in terms of verticals and horizontals:
wit (82 months ago | reply)
Nice work was that the perspective tool?
wit (82 months ago | reply)
Looking closer the extreme right foreground pillar seems to be leaning to the right. Checking with a ruler it leans more to the right than it did to the left in the previous so left with an unnatural looking situation. Good try but I think I prefer the original (my taste I'm sure but then these things are often subjective).
Thanks for trying all the same.
The New No. 2 (82 months ago | reply)
The problem with my conversion is that I don't have the original uncropped pic to work with so I can't determine where the geometric center of the photo is. An additional wrinkle is that your lens is curving all the straight lines to such a degree that at the extreme corners things may get stretched.
As to the leaning, I usedthe sun drenched area and assumed that was vertical. Perhaps it wasn't in reality and that the exterior edge of the column was straighter. But if you look around every other column is vertical unlike your pic - which isn't to say that it's better.
I believe that the human eye is sensitive to situations like these where you have two lines near each other and skewed likeyou have with the edge of the photo and the left column. The eye imediatly focuses on that spot and the mind asks if something is wrong. Yes in reality things that are vertical appear to converge as you look upward, but themind knows that they are staright. In a photo likethis, a photo that is loking forward, the mind expects the vertical lines to remain vertical. By placing a olumn that should in the mind be vertical in proximity to the edge which is truly vertical you are telling the viewer that there is something amiss here and the viewer will then focus on this.
This is partially why architectural photography ges to great lengths to ensure that vertical elements appear vertical in their pictures.
mizzledrizzle (82 months ago | reply)
sailsbury cathedral, but I'm not inspired.
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Protagonist (82 months ago | reply)
Almost Straight, almost interesting, almost saved.
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ivymetallic (82 months ago | reply)
Beautiful angles and edges.
wester (81 months ago | reply)
The discussion thread on this picture for the Weekly pool is here.
ClintMalpaso (80 months ago | reply)
Bien por la imagen y las polémicas.
lucy1966 (73 months ago | reply)
Great photo
Dejah (63 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Gothic Churches, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.