Vaults & keystones

[Airy]

Often overseen, because of lighting conditions and painful necks.

These ones obtained with Df + Tamron 45/1.8, handheld and VR'd

[Akira]

These are beautiful vaults indeed, especially the second one.  Well worth viewing large.

[Airy]

Thanks Akira. I guess the first one was once painted or decorated like the second one. The church (Lille, St Maurice) was transformed many times.

[Akira]

Airy, thanks for the additional info on the church.  It is interesting that the architectural styles of these vault appear to be different.  I realize that many churches in Europe were eithier constructed or reformed over different periods and thus contain varying styles in them.

[Frank Fremerey]

Love them. Tell a story. Great structures and colors

[Airy]

The first one is nearly "unprocessed". The second one however needed significant adjustments : the light was very blue-magentaish, because of stained glass in the vicinity. I left some remaining magenta cast on purpose.

[Airy]

Somewhere else in France (Metz, to be precise).

[Airy]

a more general view of one of the above

[Thomas G]

a more general view of one of the above

This does it for me. Instant impression like bending back the neck and looking straight up to the vault.

[Airy]

This does it for me. Instant impression like bending back the neck and looking straight up to the vault.

... but if you do it, you may hurt your neck and anyway you'll only see darkness. No outright HDR processing, but close to it.

[Thomas G]

... but if you do it, you may hurt your neck and anyway you'll only see darkness. No outright HDR processing, but close to it.

Then it's one of the few HDRs I appreciate as they expand and transfer something hardly visible in reality.

[Akira]

Majestic image!  I like the B&W treatment of rich micro contrast.