photoniKBlog » 2005

Rome. High on the Aventine hill in Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta (the Square of the Knights of Malta) is the knights’ private garden and the way into the garden is through a huge entranceway with a locked wooden door. There is a tiny keyhole in the center of the door through which one is able to view an arbor way of trees, which frames the Dome of St. Peter’s in the distance. (text from thetravelzine.com)

From the Keyhole of the Knights of Malta

This picture was realized overlapping two frames, made with two different exposure timing: 1/15 seconds (for a good exposure of the garden) and 1/100 seconds (for a good exposure of the dome). I fixed the aperture to the same value f/4,9 to obtain the same field dept. In computer post-production I overlapped the two frames only in the central zone with a feather on the levels. Finally I applied the unsharp mask.

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St John in Lateran

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church

Digital corrections

highlight level

Lateran

St John

Technics

Thursday, May 12th, 2005 by Davide Troise / italiano

This is a picture of St John in Lateran, the first cathedral of Rome, where Emperor Constantine allowed the Pope to set up the episcopal chair after 312.
I’ve taken this photo last sunday, when I passed by the church while I was sitting on the rear seat of my brother’s car.

St John in Lateran

Yes, I know! I’ve currently the tendency to shoot pictures from moving means of transport. But I do it also to have speedly different points of view.

After the shooting, I’ve applied a number of graphical correction as the Curves adjustment, the highlight level and the unsharp mask. Doesn’t the result seem to have an atmosphere of a panting, now?

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