Ely Cathedral - the crossing

Beautiful detail, full of wonderful colors and light. Your capture of the cathedrals architecture is fantastic.

I don't give too many 7/7's but this is surely deserving. Fantastic detail, perspective, and colors. This inspires me to use my 10-22 wide angle more. Great shot, Colin.

I have a thing for heights (well, actually against heights!), so this one makes me dizzy. Great depth and perspective, Colin.

Bente, I understand - I was wilfully misunderstanding you :-) regards - Colin

 

Hanna, I know what you mean about the dull weather. It is grey outside at the moment (summer I believe!). I hope you have better weather for your trip. The chairs are set out for a school end of term ceremony which was just getting going as I was there.

 

Watermark, thanks - I have a particular liking for this building.

 

Ken, no I don't throw the 7/7's around much either. I'm honoured!

 

Kim, I'm sorry! :-) thanks for commenting.

 

 

What a terrific creation! Beautiful.Let the organ music waft through the monitor.Congrats,Colin.

Very Cool! I feel like I'm hiding up here and I might make a noise or drop something and get caught... I love it when I get a "in the photo" experience from a great shot...

Colin, awesome perspective and excellent clarity. This is a gothic view I had never seen before. Excellent.

This is one of the most original architectural photographs I have seen. The octagon(shape made of 8 triangles, I would say)al achitecture is very popular in the UK - and by influence in the anglosaxon world - but also in Italy. Any relation with the Romans there, Colin?

Thanks A.K. yes - organ music would be good!

 

Bill, now you come to mention it this does look a bit like the hunchback of notre dame's view of the world!

 

Paula, thanks, I'm a bit reluctant to claim any originality here. As part of the tour the guides open the wooden panels to let you look down like this so it must have been photographed a thousand times before.

 

manolis, I had not thought of the octagon as a specially Anglo-Saxon shape. S. Vitali in Ravenna and Charlemagne's copy in Aachen come to mind as models. This is early gothic so derived from Romanesque. The Roman engineers would have appreciated the timber engineering though - the structure is based on 8 huge timber uprights each 20m long and 30m in the air. I'm always deeply impressed by how they managed it with no more than ropes, pullies and animal power. regards - Colin

are antithetical to what this photograph is! Colin, this is outstanding. Technically and conceptually, it is a remarkable view into this grand interior space. I would like to see the bright "heptagon" at the lower edge of the frame not be truncated, but this is a very minor point and just an opinion, and probably impossible to accomplish without losing the balustrade at the upper part of the frame. Very good photograph (and the kind that you do so well). Regards.

Stunning view, perfect capture... Jiri

Balustrade. That's the word. I'm a glutton. And the image is stuffing me so full with nooks and crannies that I just want more. More. More. More. More. More of the Balustrade ... please? Just one more teensy-weensy slice.

Walter, Jiri, Douglas, thank you for your kind comments! Walter, the bright area could do to be complete as you say but I was comcentrating on getting the tops of the windows. Moving down would catch the bright area but loses the windows. Here is another shot showing what I mean and showing a bit more balustrade! You can see the noise from using a high ISO speed.

 

For those interested in tech getail the Octagon is at an angle of 22.5 degrees to the centre line of the building so appears skewed.

Rich in color. beautifull view and greatly captured colin.

Excellent work. I like this photo a lot.

Hi Colin. Thank you for the additional posting, but you are right; the first shows the tops of the windows and that is more important. Regards.

Thanks Hans, Gaetan and Walter! I appreciate you stopping by. Walter, the ideal would be to have both windows and the bright floor area which could be done with more PS jiggery-pokery but the lens would not stretch that far with just one shot.

Colin, you have captured the grandeur of this magnificent cathedral. I love the stained glass windows the play of shadows and light. Excellent work at stiching as well. Kim.

Original and fascinating view. Good use of the superwide lens. Lovely clarity and palette. Well done. Kind regards.

I have never seen such a place! Wow, Excellent exposure and detail.

Colin- how'd I miss this??? Must be in a fog! Anyway, this is super! Such a wide angle of view, your images with the 10-22mm inspired me to buy one. Now I got a question. It seems to have lots & lots of noise at ISO-1600. Everyone out there with the 10-22mm, help me out. Is this normal or is there something not right about my 10-22? It was so noticeable, it ruined several of my images. I was shocked, never had any problems before with ISO 1600, maybe a little noisy, but nothing like what this was.

 

This image looks great, I note it's 2 images and filtered thru neat image. Again it looks great!

Thanks Kim, Jan Olof, Becky and Jayme! I have a special liking for this cathedral and being able to tour round all the high bits that are usually not accessible is great as it gives opportunities for views like this.

Jayme, I am not sure whether you have a particularly bad copy of the 10-22 so I am uploading a couple of full size details for you to compare with your lens.

 

Here is a detail (about 500 pixels before passing thro noise reduction) from the lower left corner using 400 ISO for you to compare with your lens. I don't usually go higher than that but prefer to underexpose and raise the levels in PS instead especially with very bright areas such as here.

Here is the same bit after passing thro Neat Image noise reduction software.

 

I reckon the 10-22 is not quite up to Canon 'L' image quality. My copy gives images that are a little soft and show a bit of chromatic aberration at the edges. (This is by comparison with the similar Sigma 12-24 lens which was marginally sharper except at wide apertures when it lost the plot completely - half the image was sharp and the other half wasn't!)

 

Don't know if this helps. I will have to try it at 1600 and see!

Coming late to the show, I can only agree with the others - really outstanding result ! A good photo shows us the world in a new way or shows us things we have never seen before...

BTW, the balustrade has openings. In an unattended moment I would crouch on the floor to try shooting a vertical panorama downwards through one of these holes in the balustrade (ok, yes, I love Mr. Bean...)