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Description This is the third biggest church in Sofia - Saint Paraskeva. It has been built for 12 years and was finished in 1930. I saw this one before 3 months and I just waited for some spare time and good weather. I've made mistakes while taking the photos but hey... everybody can make some once in a while Better luck next time If someone sais it doesn't worth - Go and make a better one!


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Location: Sofia, Bulgaria
Date: February 17, 2009
Light Conditions: The sun's about to set
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Camera: Nikon D60
Lens: 18-55 VR
Focal Length: 18
Shutter Speed: 1/500
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 200
Tonemapping: Yes
Filters: CPL
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Postwork:
1. Semi-bracketing in Camera Raw(0, +1/3, +2/3, +1, +4/3, +5/3, +2).
2. HDR merging done in Photomatrix 3.0 for all the images.
3. Stitching the panorama in Panorama Maker 4.
4. Photoshop stuff:
----Correction of the stitching mistakes that PM4 made;
----Correction of the merging mistakes Photomatrix made;
----Color correction of the building on the right(It was too yellow);
----Global selective color;
----Curves;
----Contrast;
----Detail enhancements;
----Sharpening;
----Framing.

All rights reserved! This may not be used or reproduced in any way without my written permission! I spend a lot of time and care on my work so show some respect and DO NOT VIOLATE the copyright laws!
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Comments: 20

kuellar [2009-11-14 04:24:49 +0000 UTC]

awesome
in photoshop did you make the curved effect ?
or how did you get that using the 18-55 VR ?
really awesome

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Morpher-inc In reply to kuellar [2009-11-14 07:42:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you
The curved effect was achieved with a tile panorama. Because of the wide angle(18*1.5 = 27 mm) there is a lot of lens distortion and when you feed a panorama software images with that much of distortion it curves the image to align them
You can do this with every wide angle zoom or prime, but the effect of the fisheye is a whole lot better

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thunderbluff [2009-07-12 17:00:26 +0000 UTC]

Много добра снимка! Напълно съм съгласен с ~hollowxribcage за гадния жълт блок. :/ *фав*

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Morpher-inc In reply to thunderbluff [2009-07-13 04:27:16 +0000 UTC]

Той беше по-жълт :Р
Но иначе от друг ъгъл пък не изглеждаше толкова добре...

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thunderbluff In reply to Morpher-inc [2009-07-13 09:12:20 +0000 UTC]

Няма значение, това са подробности.. "if... If...". Факт е, че снимката е станала много добре Бравос:Р

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Morpher-inc In reply to thunderbluff [2009-07-13 19:58:26 +0000 UTC]

Мерси

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viremaster [2009-07-04 19:29:10 +0000 UTC]

beatifull shot man, fish eye?

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Morpher-inc In reply to viremaster [2009-07-04 19:41:10 +0000 UTC]

Nope
A tile panorama ot 9 shots...
That's why there's a bit difference in the colors in the sky

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Ironiada [2009-03-31 22:27:19 +0000 UTC]

Awesome piece of work !!! Congrats.
But might I recommend you try something more on the edit ?

Shadows/Highlights - and play with the advanced settings until you get the dark areas a bit lighter. Then reduce noise filter ( reduce color noise to about 50%) Copy the layer. For the upper layer , give it a high pass filter ( set to 1) then apply a noise red for color noise ( set to 100%) and change the blending mode of this layer to vivid light ( with 25 % opacity). merge the layers. Then a little bit of curves and contrast.



Oooooor you could use the dodge tool to lighten up the darker areas on the church

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Morpher-inc In reply to Ironiada [2009-04-01 07:02:24 +0000 UTC]

First to thank you for the fav, second - for the nice words and last but not least - for the ideas and criticism

Not a lot of people give people ideas how to develop their skills...

I will try the things that you wrote If I don't mess it up I'll upload the better version!

Thanks again!!!

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Ironiada In reply to Morpher-inc [2009-04-01 09:29:16 +0000 UTC]

It was my pleasure The deviation is way too god! If things don't work out, feel free to call in question my advice

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Morpher-inc In reply to Ironiada [2009-04-01 10:04:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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BorislavKostov [2009-03-03 18:44:32 +0000 UTC]

Yes ! Предполагам си пропуснал да споменеш употребата на статив ?

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Morpher-inc In reply to BorislavKostov [2009-03-03 19:12:38 +0000 UTC]

Мда Малко трудно се правят снимки за панорама иначе

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inty [2009-02-26 16:52:27 +0000 UTC]

Stunning photo and post work, how many images in total counting all the brackets and panarama shots?

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Morpher-inc In reply to inty [2009-02-26 17:00:22 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for the kind words and the
Well, I've made 13, but used only 9, cause the panorama maker requires a block and I decided to make it 3x3 All the brakets are 9x7 = 63 used and 13x7 = 91 made. The overall filesize is 1.3 gb and the panorama is 27.6 MPix(excluding the frame which is 400 pixels wide)

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inty In reply to Morpher-inc [2009-02-28 11:54:58 +0000 UTC]

damn thats awesome, once again nice work!

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Morpher-inc In reply to inty [2009-03-01 07:47:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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hollowxribcage [2009-02-24 10:30:13 +0000 UTC]

Ако не беше жълтия блок отстрани... щеше да бъде велика снимка! И е [само тъпото жълто... ew]

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Morpher-inc In reply to hollowxribcage [2009-02-24 11:12:23 +0000 UTC]

То иначе не знаеш колко жълто беше... просто повече корекции го правеха по-грозно

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