České Budějovice, Czech Republic in 2010 – St. Nicholas Cathedral
České Budějovice, Czech Republic in 2010 – St. Nicholas Cathedral
The Cathedral of St Nicholas is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in the city of České Budějovice in the Czech Republic. The foundation stone of the parish church České Budějovice was laid around 1265, shortly after the founding of the city. The completion of the main building probably occurred sometime around the mid 14th century. The original Gothic church was damaged by fire and repaired in the years 1513 - 1518. During the 16th century the church acquired a new bell tower called the Black Tower. The church has a triple nave layout with 18th century interiors.
The Exterior
DSC_4914 by
David Casteel, on Flickr (from Přemysl Otakar II Square)
DSC_4925 by
David Casteel, on Flickr (you wouldn’t believe what I had to do to get it this good—it was a terrible photo)
DSC_4939 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4941 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
The Interior
DSC_4938 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4929a by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4926 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4927 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4930 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4932 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4934 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4937 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
DSC_4933 by
David Casteel, on Flickr
There is a companion set about the Dominican Monastery in the same city:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-666181-1.html
More beautiful work, David!
UTMike wrote:
More beautiful work, David!
Mike, you are so quick! Thanks for the compliment. Do look at the Dominican Monastery, too (link at bottom of this set).
NMGal wrote:
Agree with Mike.
Thanks very much. (Am I in danger of reaching some limit on number of Topics per month, or something?)
Hello David.
Beautiful architectural photography! How did you get the tower in DSC 4939 to look straight vertical? Did you have to use a tilt shift lens or fix the converging lines in post processing? Thanks for teaching me technique.
NMY
Nice tour. Would love to hear the pipe organ.
sscnxy wrote:
Hello David.
Beautiful architectural photography! How did you get the tower in DSC 4939 to look straight vertical? Did you have to use a tilt shift lens or fix the converging lines in post processing? Thanks for teaching me technique.
NMY
Thanks for the nice words! As for that picture, it started out this way (see photo). In Lightroom I applied a lot of alterations:
Vertical: -70
Horizontal: -7
Rotate: -0.9
Scale: max left (50)
and cropped left and right to retain maximum vertical image. It was fixed this way:
Vertical: -75
Horizontal: +54
Rotate: -6.8
Scale: 65 (almost all the way left)
and crop to remove the distorted right edge and cupola. (Note the white triangle in the upper left corner--there was no image there to be seen with the vertical correction.)
You will note the use of the LR "Scale" slider. I have found that when major vertical corrections are needed, the original image space is not large enough to contain all the image data and it gets truncated. I use "Scale" to enlarge the image space enough to retain all the data, and then crop out the extra white space around it. Extreme vertical fixes also make the image appear too skinny, so I sometimes use a little negative "Aspect" (slider to left) to fatten it out. Didn't think it necessary this time. These are tricks I have recently learned to create images that represent what I saw (or think I did).
David
Since you asked about that one, #4925 started out like the 2nd image.
sscnxy wrote:
Hello David.
Beautiful architectural photography! How did you get the tower in DSC 4939 to look straight vertical? Did you have to use a tilt shift lens or fix the converging lines in post processing? Thanks for teaching me technique.
NMY
Thanks for the nice words! As for that picture, it started out this way (see first photo). In Lightroom room I applied a lot of alterations:
Vertical: -70
Horizontal: -7
Rotate: -0.9
Scale: max left (50)
and cropped left and right to retain maximum vertical image.
And since you asked about that one, this is what #4925 looked like at first (see second photo). It was fixed this way:
Vertical: -75
Horizontal: +54
Rotate: -6.8
Scale: 65 (almost all the way left)
and crop to remove the distorted right edge and cupola. (Note the white triangle in the upper left corner--there was no image there to be seen with the vertical correction.)
You will note the use of the LR "Scale" slider. I have found that when major vertical corrections are needed, the original image space is not large enough to contain all the image data and it gets truncated. I use "Scale" to enlarge the image space enough to retain all the data, and then crop out the extra white space around it. Extreme vertical fixes also make the image appear too skinny, so I sometimes use a little negative "Aspect" (slider to left) to fatten it out. Didn't think it necessary this time. These are tricks I have recently learned to create images that represent what I saw (or think I did).
David
sakitson wrote:
Nice tour. Would love to hear the pipe organ.
Me, too! Didn't happen. Thanks for the compliment.
Sorry about the double post concerning how I did things. The first version got messed up format-wise and I thought I was correcting it; instead the correct version got applied as a second post. Ignore the first version.
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