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Tiempo di Minerva, Assisi – C&C
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Tiempo di Minerva doesn’t sound remotely Roman Catholic,
yet that’s a crucifix on top-So maybe Roman Empire then- one or the other-
I presume this wasn’t hand held-
the exif says 1.1seconds at f/3.5-If you were using a tripod you could have tried for a much longer exposure by stopping down,
and the figures might have melted into the light-
they’re just a little bit prominent as they are, and they interrupt the rhythm of the base of the columns-Most of the masonry is lit artificially-
it looks like you caught it a bit earlier than the last time-
though it looks like you did have to do something to the sky, to alter colour and tone-The composition looks good-
I like the viewpoint,
and that you can see bryond the columns at the top-
it gives an indication of the structure beyond-I presume this is a very old building-
a couple of thousand years or so-
interesting to see how its been knitted into the urban fabric-It looks like a nice piazza-
putting Assisi on the long list of places to visit-thanks for showing us-
and I fully expect to be wrong about all those assumptions,
but that’s the power of photography-
you get to fill in the missing bits yourself-j
You know your history Joseph!
This is an honest to goodness Roman Temple, built and dedicated to the Goddess Minerva. The frontage is the real deal. Built by Emporer Augustus in the AD 30’s. They’ve simply converted it to a church and kept the pagan name!! Thank God for the Catholic Church! So many of these Roman Ruins are just that, ruins lying flat and scattered around various fields. The Roman Catholics have kept this one alive, breathing and still in the tradition it was built to serve. Minvera would be pleased.
The top of the tower is not lit in real life and so is a little darker in the original exposure than I?d like. I had to fire my SB800 flash on manual at full power to try and lift it a little. My only regret is that I was running on old batteries and the flash just couldn’t recharge quick enough to get me a second firing within the exposure time. (Note to self: Remember to keep a spare set of batteries at all times!!).
The nun is captured in a similar way to rear curtain flash in that I fired the flash about 3/4 of the way through the exposure, but if I’d brought my flash extension cord I could have got the same effect without fiddling with the manual fire button. The nun herself was pure fluke (I didn’t see her coming) but he group she is with is part of my policy now to include people in my dusk shots to help give scale as well as interest to the foreground. I understand where you’re coming from on how the nun might be distracting but I’ve moved away from purely the architectural capture of my dusk/night shots in the past.
The sky and the tower has been brightened using a couple of layer masks and the overall scene is helped by a cooling blue filter adjustment layer (takes outhe orange and enhances the blue) allthough the sky is not a milliion miles away from how it was captured.
Thanks for the comments Joseph and, just for you, here’s one from a little later on the night that has the base of the columns more clearly discernable (the group are actually Fanciscan monks, another fluke!)
Two great pic’s Dave,I saw them last night,and thank’s for all the tips on how you work at the pictures.
Sean.
Thanks Dave-
schoolboy history only, I’m afraid-I think I prefer the second-
for the absence of those folk from the first-I don’t think its necessary to completely correct the verticals in this type of shot-
it can end up looking a little odd-
but the landscape orientation has meant more tilt,
and maybe the geometry in the first is about as far as I’d push the converging verticals-I think correcting the tilt a little might help the second-
and I prefer the less saturated processing too-j
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