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Travelogues => Travel Diaries => Topic started by: armando_m on August 09, 2017, 15:42:02
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spending the week in the city and nearby areas
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The bishop's library
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From your images its pouring a lot of personality. Looks like an interesting place with many big and small details forming the idea of the culture. Fascinating to go in the images and zoom in...
"La Puebla is different" :D
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The bishop's library
Wonderful capture. The library itself is lovely, but the floor stands out for me as very unusual. I wondered if it was a custom Saltillo floor, or what.
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Paco, Carl, thanks for the comments
1. pano 5 vertical images, needs to have a few verticals fixed on the top right
Carl the floor is more clearly visible here, clay tiles and blue "talavera" a glazed tile, the building is from the 1600's the non glazed portions are less worn out
2. a bit of gold - for this one I wished I had the D800, I had to recover shadows with a V1 file ...
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These are all impressive images, Armando!
The V1 images may suffer in the shadow area, but your processing skill and the convincing power of the images make the shortcoming totally ignorable.
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Thanks Akira
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Fascinating images and that church is very photogenic, especially the library shots.
When I saw the first image, the first thing that sprung to mind was why is there a prison in a church :)
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Fascinating images and that church is very photogenic, especially the library shots.
When I saw the first image, the first thing that sprung to mind was why is there a prison in a church :)
Guess they do want to keep the chorus closely guarded :)
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and I didn't have to wait until winter for the mountain to get some snow ...
Edit : Popocatépetl is an active volcano, located in the states of Puebla, Mexico, and Morelos, in Central Mexico, and lies in the eastern half of the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt. Wikipedia
Elevation: 5,426 m
Prominence: 3,020 m
First ascent: 1519
Last eruption: 2005 to 2016 (ongoing)
Location: Mexico-Puebla-Morelos, Mexico
I've always being fascinated by this mountain, in my childhood I lived in Mexico city, I remember vividly how on clear days it is visible even from all the way across Mexico city, about 80km in straight line, the present image is taken from under 50km away
About the image, I only had the V1 with the 18.5mm lens, I knew I was going to crop it, I set the camera to high speed burst and took about half a second of images, then I stacked them in PS, with decreasing % of visibility , resized to 200%, and cropped it
i'm thinking of adding a bit of noise as it currently look way too smooth
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another view (pano) of the chapel with gold interior - Capilla del Rosario - Puebla México
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This is absolutely gorgeous and elaborate! Thanks for sharing!
Was the camera in the auto-focus mode when you shot the frames for the pano? Of, did you fix the focus?
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This is absolutely gorgeous and elaborate! Thanks for sharing!
Was the camera in the auto-focus mode when you shot the frames for the pano? Of, did you fix the focus?
Thanks for commenting Akira, the camera was in AF
The chapel is inside a bigger church, the construction of the chapel was done from 1650 through 1690's by the indians of the region with supervision form the spanish monks, gold was brought from another region about 500km away as Puebla does not have gold mines, the amount of hand labor is mind boggling, not to mention the amount of gold needed to cover the wall decorations, it is considered the peak of the barroque architecture in the new spain (México)
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added an explanation to the latest image of the mountain
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Thanks, Armando, for the details and the historical background of this beautiful church.
I visited famous cathedrals in Italy and Germany while I was living in Munich, but I don't think I had ever seen such an elaborate decoration.
As you explained, this is a unique collaboration between the European and the native people which was not possible to happen in Europe. I had heard about the legendary religious constructions in Latin America, especially in Mexico and Brazil. This one should be one of the prominent examples.
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All of these images are fascinating, Armando. The interior is magnificent in it's gold filagree. With your explanation, and subsequent image, I am even more taken with that floor in the library.
As for Popocatepetl, I like it as shown, but of course you are the artist, so changes are your decision.
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Beautiful photos, Armando. They remind me of some of the reasons why I visited Mexico twice in three years, and why I want to return.
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Popocatépetl, Mount Fuji, and Kilimanjaro must be the three most beautiful and photogenic mountains.
I haven't photographed any of them yet :)
Thank you for your photos I am enjoying them thoroughly.
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Fascinating series, Armando, thanks for sharing these.
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David, Carl, Anthony , Jakov, thanks for the comments!
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Armando,
This thread is full of truly amazing photographs. Thank you! I don't recall such ornate and beautiful church interiors.
Dave.
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There seem to be lot of history in Puebla. I like the second a third photo (in the first series). Second one especially is very nice "travel" photo.
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Sumptuous subjects and beautiful serie, Armando !
You managed the available light successfully in interiors buildings.
I guess the churches/libraries pics were handheld ?
Bravo ! :)
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Fantastic shots. Bishop's Library is my favorite. All are well executed!
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Fred, Rosko, Anirban, David, thanks for commenting
All images were handheld, I did have some blurry images when using the 10mm f2.8 , not so with the 18.5 f1.8, ISO 400 was sufficient to get a decent shutter speed and keep the noise levels acceptable on such a small sensor
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I was in Puebla for the weekend
Managed to get this postcard shot
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I was in Puebla for the weekend
Managed to get this postcard shot
Xcellent!
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Nothing wrong with excellent "post cards" :D
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Wow, Armando, what a great image! 8)
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So THIS is a postcard
Thanks for sharing this wonderful moment
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Paco, Carl, Bjørn, Fons, thanks for the comments