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"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
- Kahlil Gibran
This is an image of one of the interior rooms in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York. Definitely a place to visit ,as it is awesome in there and believe it or not they are still renovating most of it. This is the image I go through in my HDR tutorial. You can find the tutorial here.
I have finished the HDR tutorial I have been working on and will be uploading it next week. It will be the 1st of 4 tutorials I am creating, detailing the main processes that can/could be undertaken with different types of HDR imagery ranging from interiors, cityscapes, architecture and landscapes.
The first tutorial will involve working on an interior church image similar to this one.
This was taken in Exeter cathedral in England.
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness"
-Dalai Lama
One of the most beautiful cathedrals I have seen lies in the heart of Milan….The Duomo. Its vast, eerie-aired open spaces create a very mysterious and ominous atmosphere.
This is a huge cathedral I came across in New York on Amsterdam Avenue called the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine which is currently being renovated. Its gothic type architecture is very intricate and detailed on the outside, and simply beautiful from the inside.
I receive a lot of emails and requests from fellow flickirites asking about my processing workflow….especially on my HDR images. Its an evolving process, as I enjoy experimenting with HDR and trying out new/different things on each image. I am currently working on a tutorial detailing the process which hopefully should help, so look out for that coming soon. For a brief workflow explanation I added this a while back
This image involved taking 3 handheld exposures using autobracketing, processed in photomatix first and then into photoshop for minor adjustments with the brightness.
On the way back home from Cornwall, I decided to stop at a popular cathedral in Exeter.
As I was about to start to start snapping away inside, this old lady volunteer in the church popped up out of nowhere and said in a creeky voice ‘ There is no photography allowed here on Sundays’…’you will have to come back another day’.
Being a 3 hour drive away from this place, I wasn’t going to come back so I sat down on the chairs hoping to take a few quick sneaky shots., but the lady kept her eagled eye stare on me the whole time.
Now I am not one to break rules, but after a while I sneaked around the church hiding behind pillars and anything else I could find and took a few shots…all handheld as my trusty tripod has disappeared somewhere.
The monkey god…AKA..Hanuman is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in Hinduism.
…..the calmness within.
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
-Kahlil Gibran,
The elephant god…AKA..Ganesha is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in Hinduism.
