Bill Buchanan, HonPSA, FGDC  


St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit by Bill Buchanan, HonPSA, FGDC

October 2020 - St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit

About the Image(s)

A couple of club members recently visited a couple of churches in downtown Detroit. This is St. Joseph Oratory in Detroit, Michigan. The current building was completed in 1873. It has recently seen a resurgence of membership and has been undergoing a 3 million dollar renovation. Most notable was the renovations to it's slate covered steeple. The original contractor, Detroit Cornice and Slate, was contracted to renovate the steeple. Great job security.

Francis G. Himpler, an Ottweiler (Germany)-born New York architect, designed the building which is considered one of the Midwest's best examples of Victorian Gothic architecture, especially so because the structure is effectively unaltered.

I recently added a CamRanger Mini to my HDR tool kit which allows me to remotely control the number of shots and f stops. This was a seven exposure shot at 1 1/3 stop intervals. It was processed in Aurora 2019. I also used NIK 3.0 using the perspective control which added the DxO lens profile for a Canon 10-22mm WA zoom lens.


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8 comments posted




 
Nice. Beautiful shot. I can almost smell it. Thanks.   Posted: 10/04/2020 12:21:29



Max Burke   Max Burke
Bill, your are getting good at these interior images. You make them look easy, but experience is what does that. Seven images at your setting is likely what it would take to bring out such clear, straight lines and professionally looking color as if it was for a magazine or commercial. The symmetry is excellent.   Posted: 10/11/2020 22:00:09



Brad Ashbrook   Brad Ashbrook
Beautiful church and photo! I might clone out the 2 red areas and the bright blue middle left. Is the blue lighting on the edges of the wood and columns their without the HDR process?   Posted: 10/12/2020 14:51:26
Bill Buchanan   Bill Buchanan
The blue cast is caused by daylight and stained glass windows.   Posted: 10/30/2020 10:12:02



Rick Cloran   Rick Cloran
I'd say you were pretty much on the money for the look and feel of a church interior. The result is excellent. I might try pushing the mid tones open 1/2 to a full stop but that is more personal preference than necessary.   Posted: 10/12/2020 16:56:09



Bev Caine   Bev Caine
(Groups 24 & 48 & 58)
Visiting from 48 & 80
This is a beautiful church and your photo expresses all the beauty as well as the long aisle heading to the front (sorry I don't know the name of the "stage" at the front. Reminds me of the many churches we visited during the years we traveled to Europe, but this one and your image ranks very well with the best of them.   Posted: 10/24/2020 20:30:20



 
Wonderful interior shot. So beautiful composition. Blending looks good and smooth with nice color tones. Amazing symmetry and lovely perspective. The photo width looks, to me, a little bit tight but that might be due to cropping unwanted distractions. Great job. Congrats.   Posted: 10/31/2020 11:25:29



Lisa Cuchara   Lisa Cuchara
Great composition and tone mapping on this church interior

The column on the right looks a tad distorted (bows up) and I would content aware remove the person on the left as they do not add to your beautiful image.   Posted: 10/31/2020 12:54:09