Cathedral interior

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

An image I re-worked as b&w for a project - c&c welcome as always

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 7:08 pm

There is a slight distortion. Pic start straight at the bottom, but at the top the right is higher.
Not very crisp in sharpness.

Keen Eyed Joined: Oct 30, 2007 Posts: 661

need to visit it

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

Henk - I know I will get the Breezebrowser answer but the original is really really sharp - I agree that it does look soft here though
The image is square - the tops of the columns are not at the same levels if that is what you are measuring. Take a line from the cills under the openings at the top.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:13 pm

Dominic, which Cathedral was this? It would be good to see a sharper version of this. This version here is too soft as you have already noted.

I just designed a booklet cover with an image of the ceiling of King's College Chapel, taken, I am certain, with a medium format camera by a German photographer and was fascinated with the detail she managed to capture, including the stained glass.

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

The detail is all there and crisp at 100% but re-sizing it to less than 100kb is killing it - it is Norwich cathedral
It may be slightly better here:_
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=10635992

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:47 pm

Can I see the coloured version(if you have an edited one) cause I'm not liking this.....

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

Coloured version

Professional Joined: Sep 10, 2007 Posts: 1505

working on pictures for web display is actually easier. better do little
bit pp on original and then resize for web display and do pp on the
resized and sharpen the resized picture , not the original. jepg files
for web display are very hardy things don't worry about their quality
degration. i work on 100 kb mutilated jepg files it always
had improved the quality rather than degrading it .

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:56 pm

I like the colored one....Why did you choose B&W???

Professional Joined: Apr 14, 2009 Posts: 1392

amazing Dom... loving the lines... BTW nice to meet you and Muzna the other day...

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

Thanks for the comments - good to meet you too chropher - I hope the fireworks shooting is going well!
I chose to convert this to b&w as I feel that taking away the colour removes a possible distraction and allows the eye to focus more on the lines of the structure

Expert Joined: Sep 13, 2008 Posts: 878 Location: Dubai

...and here's a detail from the original

Expert Joined: Jun 27, 2009 Posts: 854 Location: Sharjah

Dom, I really liked the colored version.