Konnerud Kirke

First effort at doing a bit of architecture. The image is

unmanipulated apart from a slight crop on the left. Any thoughts,

particularly on the angle I took the shot from. Does it work?

Thanks in advance.

Strange. The church actually looked scandinavian to me.

Wonder why?

Nice "postcard" image.

This caught my eye. Beautiful hue the sunset is creating. The angle is great to me and the trees certainly make a pretty framing to your photo.

Gustaf,

It does look a lot like a Scandinavian church doesn't it. I suspect that would be because the church is in Konnerud, a small town in Norway :)

How is Uppsala by the way, my mother used to live there.

Thank you Kim, I am glad this shot appealed to you and thank you very much for replying to my specific question about the angle. I must say that I had the shot sitting on my PC for a while as it didn't do anything for me to start with. It sort of grew on me though. Possibly because we haven't had much in the way of snow this year:)

You know I've gone through that hesitation of wether a photo is good enough or not. You can look at a picture for so long that you just "don't see it anymore". I say just do it then.

very attractive light and i like very much the placement and perspective via the building. solid work, and you've got a talent for composition that cannot be taught, imho.

Ben,

Your comment made my day, particularly considering your remarkable portfolio. It gives me incentive to try and do the best I can.

Thanks very much for stopping by and giving your considered views on this shot.

Good composition. U have a good taste to use the environemtn of the object as the framming. The combination of Snow, Church and trees make a sense from the photo. Nice Shot

Thankyou very much for the comments Endramawan.

Now if only I were able to find those wonderful colours you have in your shots!

The foreground, the background, the sunrise colours, give us a very peacefull atmosphere. The picture is composed very well and the final result is a very good postal card.

Thanks for taking the time to comment on this shot Loic. I am glad you like it and appreciate your comments regarding the composition.

I love your shot. It's beautiful qua composition and light. The skycolour is great and throws its magnificent soft purple glow over this place.

 

It has nothing to do with the quality of your shot, but it's a pity there was no service in the

picturesque small church at the moment you took this shot. It seems very nice to me when the lights had burned. I will imagine myself they do:)

 

However, a fantastic picture. Great job!

Thank you Ada. As a relative beginner, it is always encouraging to get comments like this, especially on technical things such as the composition you mentioned. Particularly when it comes from artists such as yourself.

Mark the scene is very nice here. Apart from that maybe a bit closer in and lower down with more to the 18 end of that lens will add more drama. As is its reletivly documentary but still fine...depends what u want. The tree overhang i would lose for sure in the next try though as it adds nothing and causes distraction.

Thank you very much for your extremely helpful comment Paul. I very much take your point about the tree overhang and did do a couple without that in too. I will try another version exactly as you suggest because I can't quite visualize it so well and I love your compositions (your bridge shots particularly).

Thanks again for taking the time to comment.

This is one of your best compositions. Very nicely done. As one other suggested, it would be possibly to be done better with a slightly wider angle, but that might have thrown an exposure meter off -- so bracketing exposures might have been necessary or manual exposure made necessary.

 

As to the point of the overhanging tree, sometimes it is helpful to have such things to 'frame' a photo and bring a 'near' point to help establish 'distance' from the 'subject' -- e.g. the church -- it works the same as a frame around a painting or photograph, but it's within the photograph itself and adds interest, BUT one has to be very aware of how aesthetically pleasing those framing branches -- overhangs are when one makes the decision to keep them in.

 

You have 'the eye'.

 

Trust it.

 

John (Crosley)

Thanks John. I really appreciate your comments. From someone who has the breadth of experience you have and the eye to catch your amazing street shots, your comments are taken very seriously. Your comments regarding the overhanging branch are very astute. I did consider them carefully for depth and didn't really take note that they are rather ugly. The other element that bothers me is the cloud behind the steeple. I'd have liked it to have moved over a bit.

That you and Paul both mention a wider angle intrigues me, is the idea behind this to stretch out the angles a little?

Thanks very much again for taking the time to comment.

Graveyards !!! My favorite !! A subject I want to focus... Very good image ! And colors of sky so moody !

Thanks Michael. You should have seen the colour of the sky in the other direction, it was amazing. However, I find that shots of funny coloured skies are rarely interesting so didn't take one.

Mark, very nice scene, brings to my mind some old Russian paintings...What I like is the

church colors and lighted sky in contrast to the dark grave yard, Well done. Pnina

Thank you Pnina. It's always encouraging to get comments from someone with your talent.

Mark, a wonderful composition. I agree with John Crosley - you do indeed have the 'eye' for composition :)

 

You specifically asked about the angle of shot, so here are my thoughts:

What do you think about getting down lower to include more of the tombstones? In this way, you might generate better interest in the foreground as well as the background. That will enable you to grab more of the sky as well, should the sky contain a lot of interest?

 

It was a pity that there were no lights on in the church. The warm glow of lights would have been the perfect touch to this lovely scene.

 

Mark, what kind of exposure setting did you employ? I'm just curious :)An extremely atmospheric image. M

Thanks Michael for your kind words. I take your point about moving down lower and think it would, indeed be a nice idea. Unfortunately, I was on the other side of a wall which is just below the bottom of the frame. I couldn't seem to make the wall work very well in the shot so did without it.

Light on the church would have been fantastic!!

This shot was taken at 1/10 second at f11 with ISO 320.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment.

Mark, thank you for the camera info - I presume you either used a tripod or rested the camera on the wall? Don't you wish sometime you can 'remove' pesky elements that get in the way? M :)