Challenge:Glass (Classic Editing) Camera:Canon EOS-10D Location: Harvard Divinity School Chapel, Cambridge, MA Date: May 4, 2003 Aperture: 5.6 ISO: 400 Shutter: 1/125 Galleries:Abstract, Still Life Date Uploaded: May 6, 2003
Same chapel as in the Postcard challenge, this shot inside the chapel shows just one small section of a large stained glass window. Photo was cropped and deskewed, and the purples and reds were selectively enhanced.
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Thanks for all the comments! About the crop and framing: the black border is actually a strip of lead that's part of the stained glass itself. My original photo shows more of the window on all sides, but this natural frame caught my attention as a good crop. Cudos to the original glass artist!
I know this is a photo of a stained glass window but it looks just like a painting. The detail is very good, and I like your idea of displaying on a section instead of the whole window.
I really like your composition here - you have taken an "ordinary" stained glass window and created something of your own - purple pillars!!! Beautiful.
Even though the upper body and feet are cut off, this works for me. I love the depth of color that only stained glass can hold. I used to work with stained glass and still love it today. Very nice photo. Good luck in the contest.
I like how you cropped/framed this photo. somehow it's more original and meaningful to me to have the hand and the book as the only really recognizable forms in the composition, with everything else left rather abstract. Good lighting too.
I was wondering if there would be a stained glass pic. This one is very pretty though I hink the crop is a bit tight. I'd like to see more of the artwork in the pic. Maybe it was a location constraint.
This doesn't say anything about glass to me, I gather it is a stained glass window, but it could as easily be a picture from a book. You should try to think of the finished product, what does it tell you about the theme of the shoot.
The problem with some subjects is 'connotation' (just thinking out loud)... And that one would expect something more than mere 'depiction' of what was there, i.e. a capture making new the inherent natural qualities we perceive prior to filtering the image through camera...
Since the colour hues found here (especially the leaves bottom left) are rarely seen anymore, this shot gives me something most others can't.
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