Well, since you have asked for critical opinion... I have an impression that there was an attempt to fix - perhaps - the barrel distortion here, which caused the vertical elements of the composition to be taller than they used to be... At least it frequently happens to me when I "fix" my wide angle shots, causing some of them to be a little unnatural. Despite the high iso, the image does not seem to be too noisy. The highlights appear to be overblown in the far part of the image, by the altar. A longer exposure, lower iso, smaller aperture and a tripod usage could have helped making it even sharper. All these things are not always feasible but we are criticizing here, aren't we? Did you have to lit up the shadows during post processing? I like the theme, the image looks like a pencil drawing. IMHO
Well, since you have asked for critical opinion... I have an impression that there was an attempt to fix - perhaps - the barrel distortion here, which caused the vertical elements of the composition to be taller than they used to be... At least it frequently happens to me when I "fix" my wide angle shots, causing some of them to be a little unnatural. Despite the high iso, the image does not seem to be too noisy. The highlights appear to be overblown in the far part of the image, by the altar. A longer exposure, lower iso, smaller aperture and a tripod usage could have helped making it even sharper. All these things are not always feasible but we are criticizing here, aren't we? Did you have to lit up the shadows during post processing? I like the theme, the image looks like a pencil drawing. IMHO
ReplyDeleteMichael Mossiagin, thanks for the critique. You are right, I went much too far in the post-processing. I will try another version.
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