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File:Church of Santi Nereo e Achilleo.jpg, featured[edit]

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Church of Santi Nereo e Achilleo
King of : The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus Ss. Nerei et Achillei is Theodore Edgar McCarrick that came from your zone --LivioAndronico talk 19:37, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

* Oppose Nice, but strong magenta flare around the right pillar of the baldachin, close to the altar. Even visible at thumbnail. Not correctible I'm afraid--Jebulon (talk) 20:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Oppose Too soft in focus for me in the background at the top. I think you should have set the exposure time to 30 sec, and have chosen a suitable smaller aperture to get more DOF. Does not reach the current very high church interior bar. Do you have the new version 6 of Lightroom? I can recommend it as it has a builtin HDR merge, from which you can combine several exposures and get a "super-raw" with much more dynamic range (you can find a few of these in my recent uploads). I think it works very well and convenient with single frames (I still use PTGui for HDR panos) and would be suitable for these kinds of church interiors to get better results. -- Slaunger (talk) 20:42, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • With HDR of Photoshop or Lightroom is a disgusting, also do not have time, because you see these empty churches are full of tourists and also expect also two hours to find the time that there isn't people, and are usually a few moments --LivioAndronico talk 20:57, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
A technical discussion about HDR merge in Lightroom 6
    • I fully agree HDR in Photoshop is utter disgusting; but it works very differently in Lightroom 6. For instance, I just uploaded this Lightroom 6 tone-mapped HDR of three exposures 2 EV apart. I think you agree with me, that it does not look artificial? On the contrary, it helps to avoid the blown highlights while getting the details out of the shadows, much as your eyes do with their logarithmic response. You can setup your camera for a bracketed exposures, such that it does not take a long time to take. You can even repeat it a few times to avoid having people in the same place as the HDR merge in Lightroom also has the ability to remove ghosts. LR can also align the exposures if they are not perfectly eligned due to, e.g., shutter snap. Just a friendly advice. -- Slaunger (talk) 21:05, 25 May 2015 (UTC) [reply]
      • Slaunger my camera is the D3200 that haven't the bracketed exposures --LivioAndronico talk 21:12, 25 May 2015 (UTC) [reply]
        • My bad, I did not realize that. Still, manually changing the shutter time does not take long. I do that occasionally, when the three brackets I have at my disposal is not [[::File:Viborg by night 2014-11-04 exposure fused.jpg|enough]]. And again, do not worry that changing it will ruin the alignment. LR can autoalign the exposures and it works quite well. -- Slaunger (talk) 21:24, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
          • I repeat : I do not have time, because you see these empty churches but are full of tourists and I expect also two hours to find the time that there isn't people, and are usually a few moments --LivioAndronico talk 21:41, 25 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Slaunger is right, the HDR function in Lightroom 6 works very well, I already used it quite often and I am very happy with the results. The pictures become dramatically better. Well, my new EOS 6D is able to take AEB with up to seven pictures which makes the whole thing easier, of course (but when doing night shots you have to use high ISO because the AEB isn't able to make exposures of more then 30s - the other option is to do it manually using BULB. But I think this shouldn't be a problem when doing church interiors what I didn't try yet). But as Slaunger said you can do this manually, as well. You should really try it. By the way: When I took this, this and some other pictures of monuments in Berlin, I had to wait for more than two hours taking lots of pictures until I got some on which no tourists were to see. The longer you set the exposure time, the less ghosts you have on the picture. @Slaunger: In my opinion the HDR of LR 6 is very good but the automatic ghost removal is completely crap. I don't know if it is my fault but it completely ruins the picture. I will upload an example as soon as I have the time. Maybe you can give me a hint if I am doing something wrong. --Code (talk) 05:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Code: I agree with you that the deghosting feature does work too well. I have yet to find an example of my own where it actually works. I have seen it work in a tutorial video from Adobe, but that is it. Maybe it is just marketing bullocks. -- Slaunger (talk) 19:20, 26 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Confirmed results:
Result: 11 support, 1 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:08, 3 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Architecture/Religious buildings
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