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I like the perspective and effect. Nice symmetric composition, and people add some life. Very good image!

Bella interpretazione!!! Ciao.

Technically excellent and well composed and lit. A fine effort.

Superb composition that makes already spectacular  sight  fantastic and surreal. Great light and DOF. Golden reflection in the middle of the floor adds to the image.

 

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Really awesome shot. The deformation is the key point here. Symmetry is almost perfect and the sense of an aisle endless is really strong. I really like the small group of people while the remaining infinite chairs are empty.

Just wonderful superwide capture! Unbelievable! Bravo.

Hamid.

Just wonderful

What's really great for me is the impact I get from seeing the thumbnail of this image, and then opening it up and getting stunned at the immensity and beauty of this church. I think the distortion makes an incredible difference in how I perceive the size. Also, the folks in the front add to the sense of humanity, for whom this space was intended.

outstanding perspective and exposure.

Great use of the lens and great subject matter. I love the detail and the fact that there are people in the picture.

Amazing shot!!!

Amazing viewpoint, really the unique view on this beautiful building.

Altghough the photo has a lot of deformations I don't find it disturbing.

The colors and clarity ar great too, thanks for sharing!

Spectacular and original. Very original perspective !!

It's a fantastic job... I like this one more than others like Notedrame. It's strong!

Thanks for share

 

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I adore this shot!!! The clarity is amazing as is the DOF. You have captured a wonderful moment in time. Well done. One question though...what program did you use for the border and titles and how did you include it.

 

 

I'm still trying to get my head around the geometry of this voluptuous composition, the better to understand the roles of position, lens, and (any?) post production. I was going to grouse about the people at the lower left, but have decided I like the job they're doing to help establish scale. It's a fascinating image.

When I first looked at this, I was sort of ambivalent once I realized what it was. Another POW--this week--that is a bit on the gimmicky side IMO but then I did find if I let go of trying to look at the image for what it was, it does have a certain charm about it.

For me, it is the most successful images Gabi has done like this. The reason I think I feel this way is because the image is successful working as an abstract in its own right and yet has the grounding of its reality. After looking at the others in the photostream and the two following this one (the arrows next to this image--I still don't understand why these things don't show up in the person's photostream?) I got tired pretty quickly of this technique but for some reason, not this image. Regardless of how this image was done, the fisheye look is one that can get old pretty quickly if it is too obvious and I think that is what I felt as I looked through the series of images Gabi has done. This one is one that seems to be able to transcend the technique a bit better because the distortion created an abstract form which I think is rather pleasing.

I do think some of the other images do have a certain appeal to them, I just find that the repetition is what starts to minimize the individual appeal of the images--except this one.

Well that's odd. I replied earlier and my post is gone - zip - vanished. And it was rather complimentary too. I'm enjoying this Photo of the Week (for a change :) I find it eleganant, due in no small part to the color palette which I realize is out of the photographer's control. I love the way the humans are dwarfed by the scale and seeming enveloping embrace by the ceiling (great title, Gabi!) I'm not so sure the top of the photo is necessary. The embrace might be more powerful if the image were cropped to about 1" below the top border making it an open embrace. Good job!

This wins for symmetry. There is also a computer game interior feel about it. It is deceptively good in all possible way.

For me, it's an image where good technique and vision complement each other. Within the peculiar technical constraints of a fisheye lens, it captures an interesting form that expresses in a symbolic way something of the essence of the building it portrays. Whether the form evokes an embrace or - more aptly still in my view - a chalice, it provokes a sense of admiration and awe, which is exactly what the architects intended to convey in the first place. The nicely controlled contrast in lighting and colour, between the bright gold of the coffered ceiling and the sombre grey of the arches and pillars, lies at the heart of the whole creation and, I would think, is what makes it so attractive.

Analizing your image, from the point of view as arquitectural photographer,in my opinion the image is clearly done finding the aesthetic viewpoint, not finding an acurate perspective and an acurate relation between volume and elements,.The point is catch our eyes and mantaining the visual interest,and you have got.The timing is acurate (I imagine that is under a HDR tech). The people sitting in a corner adds a touch of tension because breaks the architectural symmetry, I like it .In some occasions is necesary and good to decide to include the human being to show the physical dimension of building...Spectacular I have no doubt.Regards

Someone mentioned the shape of a chalice, does anyone else see the shape of the POW cup?!?

I think the warped perspective adds to the feeling of the immense size of the church. It seems we, as viewers, are being swallowed by this oncoming, massive building. The people in the foreground add to the sense of scale, and also give a contradictory feeling of calm and peace, in stark contrast to the feeling of being swallowed by the church.

Beautiful image.

Just when I thought I'd seen enough fish-eye images to last me for a long time, too many of them the same old thing, along comes this one. However it was done, I like it a lot. Almost causes vertigo. :)