Maybe you are right the vignette is a bit heavy in this picture.
Just for you to know the white space in the front and back of the houses is a frozen lake, and the yellow small house is a sauna. Finns like to leave from the boiling hot sauna, jump into the ice cold lake and go back to the sauna. They build they saunas just by the lake and when it frozen they open a hole on the ice to be able to jump in…
Amazingly enough there were a few people still in the church when I started to take pictures and I waited when the hall was empty to take the overall. My Idea was to show the beauty of the place but indeed, now that you guys said and I thought a bit about it, it does give that feeling of something missing…
This is one handheld exposure only, with some Photoshop work. I busted the ISO to 800 which the D7000 handles very well, also the 24-70mm makes the whole difference.
I’m using the Color Efex Pro 4 which helps a lot. I’m still in the trial period but will purchase it as soon as expires, well worth the money.
The Church was quite bright, I took this shot just after the Easter service around noon, the day was very bright outside and the church has massive windows all around.
The burst of light from the light bulbs were done in post.