Fascinating. 42 million tiles... incredible!

Naturally, I played with it a bit in Camera Raw. I wanted to see if I could make the three figures toward the center stand out a bit and clearly be the primary focus.

Your thoughts?

  Posted: 07/08/2025 21:22:06

Pete

I like it

Who would have thought to make them a focus point?

Emil

  Posted: 07/10/2025 15:06:35

Emil - just like you, I am fascinated by the amount of meticulous work that went into building such beautiful church interiors. I just love the decorations used in Byzantine churches often using expensive materials in the tiles.

Cheers

Mike   Posted: 07/13/2025 02:32:04

Hi Emil, Very good shot. I share your admiration for these kind of buildings and started to capture them in vertical panoramas - my new preferred format as you may have noticed ;-) I think it emphasiszes well the mere size of the work. I am travelling without Laptop but tried to recrop your picture with PS express to give you an idea, what I mean. Your thoughts?   Posted: 07/13/2025 10:02:02

Emil, I love the interiors of old churches like this and I like how you captured the interior. I like the suggestion Pete made about the crop. While I like the top of the image, it pulls you away from the looking at the ceiling painting in the center of the image. Seems like to me the lines created by the pews are not strong enough pull you away from the top of the image. Below is my version of the crop and I also removed some of the distracting lights. Thanks for sharing.   Posted: 07/26/2025 12:08:10