Nikon Wednesday 2011: #23

[kris-bochenek]

<p><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=4151244">Doug Santo</a> Do you have to ask for permissions to shoot in churches? or you just walk in.<br>

I like your photos a lot.</p>

[doug_santo]

<p>Kris Bochenek -<br>

<br /> Well, it depends; if you walk into a church with a camera and no tripod during a low traffic time and take a few photos for personal use, my experience is that most churches don't mind. If you intend to use the photos for some commercial purpose including self promotion, then you probably need church permission. You can stand on a sidewalk and take photos of the outside of any church or structure, you need no permission for that (except possibly a photography permit from the City where the church is located).<br /> <br />I am contacting historic churches in southern California as part of a project I am working on. I have contacted about 300 so far. I send a letter of introduction explaining who I am and what it is I am proposing, and I ask for permission to enter the site and photograph the interior and exterior of the church. The church is required to sign a property release similar to:<br>

<br /> <a href="http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-release.html">http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-release.html</a><br /> <br />In return for allowing me to photograph their premises, I give the church usage rights to 10 to 20 photographs that I take. I retain sole and exclusive copyright and reserve unlimited usage rights of all images to myself. So far, I have had about a 20% success rate with churches willing to participate. ASMP has good information about when you need releases and when not. Also, you may be interested in this document:<br>

<br /> <a href="http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf">http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf</a><br /> <br />Thank you for your comment.<br>

<br /> Doug</p>

[diane_madura]

<p>Doug, I like your church as well. Very good technically, nice color. Have you considering stitching a panoramic of the church?</p>

[sebastianmoran]

<p>Great work everyone... Here's a red-winged blackbird from Florida this April. This little guy stood on the rail, looking around, then from time to time would let out a huge screech. Here he is being vocal.</p>

<p><img src="http://2under.net/images/nw/nw11-23.jpg" alt="" /></p>

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<h4>Red-Winged Blackbird, Wakodahatchee, Delray FL -- Nikon D300, 300mm f/4 EDIF AF lens</h4>

 

[doug_santo]

<p>Diane Madura -</p>

<p>This is a panarama, a small one. The photo is two frames oriented vertically and stitched together. Each frame is a three-shot exposure bracket. The frames were processed in photomatix for exposure and tone mapping, stitched with PT Assembler, edited in DXO for lens and stitching distortion, white balance, contrast, highlight/midtone/shadow, and a little sharpening. The processed image was edited in Corel Paintshop Pro to remove stitching anomalies. I like to shoot with a full frame body and 14mm lens oriented vertically and then stitch the images. This gets me pretty close to the field of view from an 8x10 view camera with a wide lens. Often I'll crop the image square, but I liked the wide crop in this case.</p>

<p>Thank you for your comment.</p>

<p>Doug</p>

[vince-p]

<p>@Doug. Is that all? Sounds like a piece of cake.</p>

[greg_kowalczewski]

<p>A local Kookaburra enjoying all the great shots!</p>

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[lachaine]

<p>A straight from the camera urban sunrise. We don't seem to get many of them this year.</p><div></div>