Empty Chairs (in the Cathedral)

...but to be fair, this is early on a cold, dark February weekday morning, well out of the tourist season and there was no service, at the time.

Which again goes to show how we can, by cropping out and thus purposefully removing details, we can distort the truth, or context - of course this was no attempt to trick the mind or distort the supposed attendance figures in religious buildings, but to get a better photograph.

The classic composition, would, of course, have one lone worshipper praying in one corner of the image - but there were none but it certainly crossed my mind. Indeed, this wasn't the sure fire Blip until I started editing it, and had only shot two of it, the other in vertical format.

Lens was that manual focus 135mm f2 Nikkor lens, wide open, as used in the same building two days ago. The 'lighting' was definitely not as is shown, it was uniformly dull, cold, flat and quite boring. A build-up of some Photoshop exposure treatments lead to this, which I'm rather pleased with.


The editing, which included some perspective alterations and intentionally added pincushion distortion (from a distortion free lens) lead to an insanely sized full-res jpeg of 31mb, which Blip refused to upload! No surprises, I suppose, so this is a reduced res copy - from a 92mb PSD