B&W Lincoln Cathedral

• connie

  Participant

  February 4, 2012 at 3:59 pm

  Wishing for a wide angle lense, but in the meantime have this :)

  
  connie

  Participant

  February 5, 2012 at 10:30 pm

  No one got an opinion?
  markclehane

  Participant

  February 7, 2012 at 9:44 pm

  Hi Connie.
  Firstly, let me say I’ve given up trying to get shots like this to work myself as in my opinion, they rarely do when using a standard lens. Also, I feel a wide angle lens wouldn’t be much use here either as it would only distort the image further, mainly by making the spires appear as if they’re falling inwards. Ideally what’s needed for this type of photography is a tilt & shift lens.
  As for your image…I might be wrong here but would I be correct in saying you tried to correct it with either the transform or skew tool in PS? Apologies if I’m wrong. There appears to be a strange perspective to it but maybe that’s just caused by it not being composed from dead centre.
  Incidentally, could you not have stepped back a bit further to get in the whole building?

  Anyway on a positive note :D, the subject really suits B&W, you have lovely contrast in it, nice and sharp and the clouds are perfect.

  Cheers,
  Mark.
  Seaview

  Participant

  February 7, 2012 at 10:13 pm

  If you haven’t a tilt & shift lens, you could try taking a number of images and stitching them together. I’m going to try this in the near future.

  Dave.

  P.S. It looks like a beautiful building with stunning detail.
  Martin

  Participant

  February 7, 2012 at 10:48 pm

  I think its nice as it is. I think it works well in B&W. I like the contrast think its nice

  Dont agree that it needs a wide angle lens or a tilt & Shift lens (yawn…)
  Dont know why you would want to stitch a number of pictures together, dont know what that would achieve…

  Anyhow, the only suggestion for improvement I think would be that I think its over sharpened, I think I would have stood right in the center of the church so that the picture looked fully level rather than slightly slopping if that makes sense…

  I took a picture similar to this of the front of Notre Dame in Paris last year, see below, Its a picture made in a darkroom and printed using a lith process to give a grainy soft look. I think the less sharp look of this and by being nearer the center of the church keeps the church more level and it stops it from slopping so much.