The Last Judgement in a stained-glass window presented the medieval peasant with two alternatives of life after death. In the top half there is eternity in Heaven with God, surrounded by the saints and the angels. In the bottom half there is everlasting torment in Hell with the damned and with such creatures as the horned "blue devil", depicted in gruesome and terrifying detail. It was the hope of Heaven and the fear of Hell that helped to drive the simple man to devote so much of what he could ill afford.
Oh yeah! That is what I love to see!
That is much-much better, and is enjoyable detail in.
Thanks Steve.
I did realize what you said (black interior), and yes the Nikon 70-300 Vr is a great lens. Not the very best at the long end, but very usable.
Thank you all for your comments. Not sure what you mean by "prefer horizontal". Do you mean shot in Landscape VS Portrait, which I have used? Joe, for the real detail in this stained-glass window, please see my updated image reprocessed in Adobe Photoshop LR4. Is this what you have in mind?
To achieve this exposure in the large image, the interior of the Church would be black. I was trying to show the size and the placement of the window i.e. it is very large and it is high up in the West end of the Nave. The Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM is just such a versatile and useful lens to have in your Camera Bag. It's there when you need it. Shame that there is no Zeiss equivalent with Autofocus and IS. Regards steve
04-25-12 15:34
Great image, however I couldn't see the details on the stained glass window - looks in my monitor overexposed.
Probable a multiple exposure HDR might bring up some details.
On your Flickr site is better, still in the highlights is not enough detail.
The rest is top - as we got use to...
This was shot with a Canon Telephoto lens as far back as possible from the window to minimise the lens distortion. I obviously can't post this image here.
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