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Tuesday 5 August 2014

Cathedral in Bourges France

I liked this image because it has an abstract quality to it, that I didn't notice until I processed it in Lightroom. I like the tonality of the image very much, which I intentionally created by reducing the saturation of the image, greying it down somewhat. The abstract quality of the image is that it looks very much like a face looking down at us. Almost alien in nature. You can see the head, the eyes, and mouth of the alien face.  Shots like this are hard to take without distortion due to the extreme height of the interior of the cathedral inside, and having to take the shot from the floor level. So extreme curvature is created as a result. Problems like this can be overcome with a large format camera which allow movements of the front lens and the back of the camera, a sometimes complex operation, that can eliminate or correct curvature. In this digital image, I resorted to using a "distortion" filter to correct the curvature as much as I could.