Challenge: Stairs (Standard Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens: Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM for Canon
Location: Hungarian Parliament, Budapest
Date: Nov 25, 2016
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 2500
Shutter: 1/13
Galleries: Interior, Architecture
Date Uploaded: Dec 1, 2016
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Is it overprocessed? It is, isn't it? Way too much dodging and burning. Well, let's enter it anyway!
The title refers to Imre Steindl, the designer of the Hungarian Parliament building, who went blind before he could ever see it completed. There's a statue of him in this room.
I actually saw this staircase on a postcard, before I ever visited, and immediately thought "I want to try a version of that shot!"
The reality is always a little more fiddly than the ideal, though. I had to shoot hand-held in poor light, holding the camera out above the heads of pushy tourists and composing in live view... the lens distortion required a fair bit of correction, as did my imperfect framing which left this slightly off centre; the edge of the white portions of the carpet not meeting the corners of the image symmetrically bugs me, as does the slight asymmetry in the windows, and this lens loses a lot of quality in the very corners. To be fair it's designed as a 1.6 crop lens, shooting on a 1.3 crop body, so I shouldn't complain.
Editing consisted of lens distortion correction, perspective correction, cloning out some rubbish on the stairs (they don't keep that red carpet very clean), curves, excessively aggressive dodging and burning, resize, and a teeny tiny sharpen. Lately I've been noticing oversharpening more and more on some of my older work, and the works of others, so I've been consciously trying to dial it back more. Not yet sure if this is the right balance - will have to see how I feel about it in a week or so. |
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