St. Alex Church, Calangute, Goa

[Rajan Parrikar]

St. Alex Church, Calangute.

[RSL]

Fine shot, Rajan. Love the lighted interior visible through the door.

[francois]

The link light gives a soft look that I'm very fond of. As noted by Russ, the lighted interior makes it even better.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

The quiet beauty, not at all flamboyant, is what we have come to expect from Rajan.

[sdwilsonsct]

Excellent light, we had something like it on the snow here this morning.
The building feels like it is leaning a little to the right.

[Rajan Parrikar]

Russ, Francois, Eric, Scott - thanks.

Scott - good catch! Fixed now.

[Jeremy Roussak]

It's very beautiful but I wonder if the verticals aren't a little over-corrected. It looks as if it's bursting out at the top. Could just be me, of course.

Jeremy

[Rajan Parrikar]

It's very beautiful but I wonder if the verticals aren't a little over-corrected. It looks as if it's bursting out at the top. Could just be me, of course.

Jeremy

Thanks, Jeremy. I am not sure I agree. I try not to make the lines entirely vertical in cases such as these. But I recognize that there are differing views on how much correction is appropriate. The main correction here was done via the Tilt-Shift lens not in post-processing.

[francois]

Thanks, Jeremy. I am not sure I agree. I try not to make the lines entirely vertical in cases such as these. But I recognize that there are differing views on how much correction is appropriate. The main correction here was done via the Tilt-Shift lens not in post-processing.

The building may not be perfectly "square". A few years ago, I tried to correct a shot of a tuscan farm and I never managed to get it right. Last year I returned and could notice that nothing in the construction was really parallel or vertical or square…

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

The issue of the "squareness" of a building reminds me of a time many years ago when I was working for a small research company located in a colonial era New England house. One large room in the house was the library, which had a ceiling probably about six feet and six inches high at one side, tapering to about five feet ten inches on the other side. I could tell, because I was about six feet two inches tall with plenty of clearance on the high side of the room only.

When the house was built, I suspect that a tall guy worked on one side of the house while a shorter guy worked on the other side, each using his "elbow to finger tip" as a measuring device. In spite of this peculiarity, the house was solid, having lasted over two hundred years when I worked there.

Hmmm. Maybe a little Photoshop wizardry could fix that house.