Frans Gunterus, QPSA
April 2021 - ahj Mahal, Agra – India.
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About the Image(s)
ahj Mahal, Agra – India.
The Taj Mahal is a UNESCO World Heritage. A symbol of spectacular love
story in India. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628 to 1658) was very sad
when his favourite wife -- Mumtaz Mahal -- died while giving birth to their
14th child. He build this ivory-white marble mausoleum to place the tomb of
Mumtaz Mahal. Later when Shah Jahan died, he also wanted his tomb to be side
by side with Mumtaz Mahal. No picture allowed inside of the mausoleum.
Please compare Before and After images. As usual, when traveling you almost
have no choice for the object lighting, distracting people in the area,
cables and all debris. I have to clean and remove those imperfections, add
water reflection, perform Sky Replacement and last but not least perform
Dodging and Burning for lighting according to my imagination. To me, this
was the different between Taking Pictures and Creating Pictures.
Canon EOS 6D Mark II, 1/125 sec, f/5.6, ISO 100.
12 comments posted
(Groups 36 & 67)
Since you have already cropped this quite heavily may I suggest that you just continue and crop ALL of the building on the left and also the post on the right edge. Doing so would just clean up the composition and remove a few distractions making a cleaner and stronger image. Posted: 04/01/2021 13:31:00
(Group 32)
You have done a great job of post-processing this classical image (I have been there twice and my shots cannot match this).
But this building is such a work of symmetric art, it must be perfectly level. I have rotated your image .6 degree to the right. Does this look a bit better? I agree with Larry's cropping suggestion. Posted: 04/02/2021 00:39:35
(Group 32)
Perhaps on future trips you could try a long exposure of 30 seconds with a 10 stop ND filter to rid your image of people. If everyone keeps moving, it should work fairly well. Posted: 04/16/2021 11:17:25
Although architectural imaging is normally completely symmetrical, I personally like the slight angle of view. One could argue on weather to keep or to remove the birds on the right side of the dome and the small "black" dots on the left side of the sky.
Very nice details and textures.
Well done. Posted: 04/21/2021 10:10:58