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 Nikon D800, Nikkor 14-24mm, ISO 200, 23mm, f/4.5, 1.6 sec (zero exposure)

Roskilde Cathedral is almost a thousand years old. The Church is on the list of UNESCO’s world inheritage and is absolutely worth a visit, if you ever come by Roskilde or Denmark. The Church is fairly big (not in the Sct. Peters Cathedral in the Vatican size, but it’s no small cathedral).

Shooting the photo

I had a lot of trouble getting a close shot of the church, if I wanted all of the church included. The square infront of the church is fairly big, but not compared the the size of the church. In the end I needed a 14mm full frame lens to be able to capture all of it. The first time I tried with a 17mm, and was able to include all of it, but I had to tip the camera so much, that I couldn’t get a propper good looking church out of it. The problem with wide angle lenses is, that when ever you tilt your camera, the lines start to scew, and the more you tip, the more you scew the image. And if it gets too scewed you can’t fix anymore, without ruining the photo.

But with this photo I used a different approach. I couldn’t include all of the church easily, so I chose to focus on a part of the church, like the door. As I said the square is fairly big, and I wanted to use the lines in the cobble stones, as lead in lines, but  didn’t want terrible much rather boring ground in the lower part of the photo, so I placed the camera very close to the ground, as you can see. By doing this, I can emphasize the lines going through the cobble stones, just as well as I get more room for the church it self in the image.

Taking a low vantage point, some times work really great and emphasize lines, but don’t go low too often. It might spoil the element of surprise, in your photos…

A note on the post processing

The photo a mix of three images.

1. A 5 shot HDR photo that I tone mapped in Photomatix Pro
2. A double tone mapped image made in Photomatix Pro.
3. An image created in Light room

The double tone mapped image, is only mixed in on the bricks and the cobble stones, which makes it even more moody, almost computer game graphics.