It was a beautiful day today, involving a lot of wandering around the town of Vaison La Romaine. This was taken at the cathedral built on Roman ruins. The cloisters wrap around a courtyard with arches on each of the four sides. The church is still used today, though it was built sometime in the 1500s or so. An excavation at the base shows the Roman columns that it sits on.
Thanks to all of you for the support you gave to my Waiting Bicycle and Chicago New Addition photos which were both featured in TT for this week. It was such a joy and unexpected as neither had been on PP -- what an honor and a treat!
Notes for me...no need to keep reading...
France Day 1: (a) walk around village, (b) lunch in plaza, (c) tour Roman ruins and cathedral, (d) wine-tasting, (e) photo ops, (f) dinner at 'home' with M & E, planning for tomorrow.
Great composition...you have chosen such a challenging high dynamic lighting scene...and executed it perfectly...with bracketing I suppose, although your picture do not show much of an HDR effect...well done, really!
@newbank@stevied@ericdibosco HI NL, Stevie and Eric -- yes, this was done via photomatix hdr program using three images. The lighting was so tricky that the only way I could avoid totally blown out segments to totally dark ones was combining images. Eric, I'm glad you didn't think it too noticeable as my goal was simply to make the details show up.
@dibzgreasley I appreciate your kind comments Deb! And don't mind your asking about how I did this at all. For this kind of architectural shot, where detail is important, I take three images that are bracketed 1 f-stop away from the central one. Then, I've started using Photomatix to combine them (I used to use HDR Efex in Nik Suite). Then, once combined, I do whatever adjustments needed either in Aperture or in Color Efex. Then, I just save the file as a jpg at half the size.
Thank you for adding the detailed information about your post-editing. This is an exquisite setting, and you've done it justice with such an excellent photo! Continue to have a wonderful time! (I read your notes...sounds like you are!)
Fav
If you don't mind me asking, how do you manage to get such rich colours in your work? In camera or post?