Been a while since I updated this blog. I’m currently shooting almost every day and have not spent much time at all in front of the screens.
The hard drives are filling up and I am very glad that the new 1TB portable drives have come out as I had to emergency buy a few of them.
Anyway, here is a shot I managed to process of a very famous arch that probably does not need introduction to you.

Milan is truly remarkable. The gallery is one of those wonders of the world in my personal opinion and probably the most beautiful mall as well.

The below image has been merged to HDR from three exposures, as the contrast of shooting right into the sky was too high, so I had to bracket the exposure.
I teach this technique in my workshops as well by the way.
Using my fisheye lens allowed me to capture most of the ceiling in one shot and I quite like how it turned out.

From Wiki:
“Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, France. Although considerable parts of it are still in Romanesque architecture, it is widely considered to be among the finest examples of high, or late, Gothic architecture. Erwin von Steinbach is credited for major contributions from 1277 to his death in 1318.
At 142 metres, it was the world’s tallest building from 1647 to 1874, when it was surpassed by St. Nikolai’s Church, Hamburg. Today it is the sixth-tallest church in the world.”

This is a three exposure HDR, handheld using my new 8mm fisheye lens.
It’s so much fun shooting architecture with this lens. You can see it is a HDR by looking at the woman in the white jacket. If you’re wondering whether a photo is a HDR, these kind of effects are dead giveaways
I could have fixed it but I liked the ghostly nature of this person in this very grand cathedral.