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Lincoln Cathedral was built by the Normans after their 1066 conquest of England. The cathedral was once the tallest structure in Europe and possibly the world for hundreds of years. It's certainly an impressive building and the medieval builders certainly knew their stuff! The cathedral is and has been undergoing renovation and is in apparent pristine condition for such an old building.
Lincoln is located in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. Lincolnshire is famous for being mostly very flat and the cathedral is located on the highest ground around in the area. One notable street name nearby is known as Steep Hill, I can't think why!?
So tonight Neil and I arranged to meet up in an expensive city centre car park and made our way inside the cathedral. The doors opened at 6:30 and unusually there was no entrance fee. I think we may have been expected to make a kind donation but somehow I forgot on my way out! Oops.
Once inside, and we were pretty much the first to get in, I set about shooting the moon inside which was around 6mtrs in diameter and you certainly had no chance of missing it!
Moonshot
I got lucky and bagged this before the throng of Instagrammers turned up all trying to postion their hands as though they were holding up the moon.
Zoom pulling on the moon
Being a lightpainting photographer, I couldn't help myself and started zoom pulling on the moon!
Cross about the cross
I'm not religious in the slightest but when I spotted this cross, I couldn't help but marvel how good the dynamic range on my Sony A7iii was when I shot wide open to throw the moon out of focus. A quick edit in Photoshop raising the shadows picks out the detail in the expensive looking brass!
Shooting the shooter
I brought along a bag of lenses this evening for every eventuality. In this case, I used a Samyang 12mm full frame fisheye lens and captured this photographer who unwittingly stood still for the 30 second exposure.
One unexpected thing appeared here though; what the heck is the blue light trail on the left side of the frame? Answers please!!
Fisheye
I carried on wandering around with the fisheye lens and bagged this 30 second exposure tilting the camera back as far as I dare to distort every straight line!
The Fisheye Moonshot!
Another shot of the moon, this time with the fisheye
The Panorama Experiment
I've tried stitch panorama photography before with varying degrees of success. This is the resized version of 17 x 24 megapixels images stitched together in Photoshop. I had to resize this to make it fit on to the Hive. The original image was 16634 x 7124 pixels and shot in two rows of 8 images. That's 118.5 megapixels!
And here it is edited and also resized to fit on the Hive!
I have a camera which takes 10 frames per second and here I got lucky with two out of focus passers by walking in to frame!
The Cathedral
On our way back to the car park before the traffic warden could give us a ticket, I took a custom white balance reading off the building because the horrible orange sodium lighting has never done my eyes any good!
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I usually specialise in shooting lightpainting images but occasionally dabble in urbex and artistic model photography. I'm always on the lookout for someone to collaborate with; please don't hesitate to get in touch if you'd like to create art.
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