Architecture Suleymaniye Mosque

AlexanderMayorov · 12-09-2010, 09:18 PM

rhodopsin · 12-09-2010, 10:15 PM

Beautiful photo beautifully done imho! Thank you so much for sharing Mr. Mayorov!

(I am also impressed by the list of lenses in your signature

)

AlexanderMayorov · 12-09-2010, 10:34 PM

Originally posted by rhodopsin

Beautiful photo beautifully done imho! Thank you so much for sharing Mr. Mayorov!

(I am also impressed by the list of lenses in your signature

)

I have to update it

Canon 5D gone, K-5 will be here next week.

akanarya · 12-10-2010, 01:08 AM

thanks for sharing here Alex

icywarm · 12-10-2010, 03:40 AM

first off... I hate you... just putting that out there... I have just literary spent the last 2 hours talking myself out of a sigma 10-20... and I figure to suppress my LBA I'll go critic some photos and I bet I will not even care what lens they use... first one! Bam... oh that's nice and wide! DARN IT!

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onto the photo

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Interesting place you found there... and I think you took the right approach to capturing it with the long exposure... but two little things... with arch photos on this grand of scale I think you need to be bang on the money with having everything square and in the middle... however.. I think you are off to the right in your first photo... I can see 5ish windows on the left at the top and only 4 on the right... which carries through the whole photo twisting/skewing everything just a bit.

secondly with long exposure sometimes you need to wait at your spot for hours for just the right person to come along and form a subject... in your case... i think the opposite is true... the person up close on the right does nothing for the image... maybe a quick retake once she was gone would be good...

Everything else is neat and fine... i like the stars from the f27... colours are pleasing... well done... 4/5

SebastianP · 12-10-2010, 03:45 AM

beautiful

AlexanderMayorov · 12-10-2010, 04:08 AM

Originally posted by icywarm

first off... I hate you... just putting that out there... I have just literary spent the last 2 hours talking myself out of a sigma 10-20... and I figure to suppress my LBA I'll go critic some photos and I bet I will not even care what lens they use... first one! Bam... oh that's nice and wide! DARN IT!

----------------

onto the photo

----------------

Interesting place you found there... and I think you took the right approach to capturing it with the long exposure... but two little things... with arch photos on this grand of scale I think you need to be bang on the money with having everything square and in the middle... however.. I think you are off to the right in your first photo... I can see 5ish windows on the left at the top and only 4 on the right... which carries through the whole photo twisting/skewing everything just a bit.

secondly with long exposure sometimes you need to wait at your spot for hours for just the right person to come along and form a subject... in your case... i think the opposite is true... the person up close on the right does nothing for the image... maybe a quick retake once she was gone would be good...

Everything else is neat and fine... i like the stars from the f27... colours are pleasing... well done... 4/5

Thanks a lot for your comments and critics.
Suleymaniye is on of the most famous ones in Istanbul. Its been closed for visit for almost 2.5 years. Its been 3 weeks or maybe 1 month since they reopened it for visits. Its impossible to find this mosque empty. Maybe you will'be able to find it empty at 8 am ? However tourists sometimes are so impolite. They saw me trying to take photo but still they tend to get in the middle of the photo. I've tried a lot to find a moment to get clear photo but once someone sees me taking photo he get closer to me and trying the same photo. Thats why I was unable to get exactly in middle and with good exposure.
Well, I'll take it as homework. I hope next week I will share with you a better photo.

Here is one another.

Last edited by AlexanderMayorov; 12-10-2010 at 04:09 AM. Reason: addition of photo

applejax · 12-10-2010, 05:16 AM

Great shots. The geometry and lights make them very enjoyable to look at.

johnmflores · 12-10-2010, 07:35 AM

I like the first one best, as the latter two have a distinctive "I'm pointing up and going ultra wide so that I can fit the dome in this shot" feel to it.

It sounds like you are really trying to capture the mosque without people in it - maybe an ND filter and smaller aperture to force a longer exposure? Won't take out everyone, but maybe people that a moving will ghost their way out. Alternately you can take multiple shots from a tripod and mix and match areas to remove folk?

But I like the people in the first shot. The shot is not just about the building, but how people are interacting and relating to it. The person on the right - particularly with the bit of motion blur - acts as a gateway into the photo. And the silhouette of people along the railing adds a sense of mystery to me, makes me ask who they are and what they are doing. If this where my photo, I might try cropping it so that the round disk on the left column sits in the upper left and the person walking into the frame sits in the lower right. You'll be cutting off much of the dome, but you can always show the full beauty of it in another shot, right?

Thanks for posting!

icywarm · 12-10-2010, 09:42 AM

you mentioned maybe at 8 am it would be empty.... I would say than go at 8 am... one thing I have learned that if you want the perfect photo you need to control all the variables... but if that is not possible... try the ND filter it could help... it seems very interesting and I hope you don't tire of shooting it... some amazing detail in there!

**Miguel** · 12-10-2010, 11:06 AM

I like the first shot best. Having people in the frame connects spirituality with the physical building. What a wonderful place indeed.

Have you performed any distortion correction on these shots?

Thanks,

M

deathdream · 12-10-2010, 11:25 AM

Süleymaniye Mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
very nice shot of a very nice place (1). people praying in the first shot giving motion to image but that woman on the right side is a distraction. i hope u can shoot Suleymaniye Mosque better, and i hope people wont leave these historical places empty :]

at the third shoot, main dome doesnt look like 53 m high. And the man at bottom left is making the photo feel like a snapshot.

AlexanderMayorov · 12-11-2010, 01:22 PM

**Ash** · 12-11-2010, 01:27 PM

Well done capture of this historic mosque.
#1 is indeed the finest rendition and perspective.
A touch of HDR or shadows/highlights treatment may work wonders on this particular scene given the large amount of shadow detail that features prominently in the architecture in this shot.
Otherwise well done.

**jbinpg** · 12-11-2010, 07:27 PM

Nice image, Alexander. Number 1 is my favorite. I would be very interested in a comparison shot taken with your new K-5 if that is even possible.

12-10-2010, 03:40 AM	#5
icywarm Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Saskatchewan Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,278	first off... I hate you... just putting that out there... I have just literary spent the last 2 hours talking myself out of a sigma 10-20... and I figure to suppress my LBA I'll go critic some photos and I bet I will not even care what lens they use... first one! Bam... oh that's nice and wide! DARN IT! ---------------- onto the photo ---------------- Interesting place you found there... and I think you took the right approach to capturing it with the long exposure... but two little things... with arch photos on this grand of scale I think you need to be bang on the money with having everything square and in the middle... however.. I think you are off to the right in your first photo... I can see 5ish windows on the left at the top and only 4 on the right... which carries through the whole photo twisting/skewing everything just a bit. secondly with long exposure sometimes you need to wait at your spot for hours for just the right person to come along and form a subject... in your case... i think the opposite is true... the person up close on the right does nothing for the image... maybe a quick retake once she was gone would be good... Everything else is neat and fine... i like the stars from the f27... colours are pleasing... well done... 4/5 Last edited by icywarm; 12-10-2010 at 03:51 AM.

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12-09-2010, 09:18 PM	#1
AlexanderMayorov Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Istanbul Photos: Gallery Posts: 466	Suleymaniye Mosque Lens: Sigma 10-20 Camera: K-7 Photo Location: ISTANBUL ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: >6s Aperture: F27

12-09-2010, 10:15 PM	#2
rhodopsin Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Deep Forest Posts: 643	Beautiful photo beautifully done imho! Thank you so much for sharing Mr. Mayorov! (I am also impressed by the list of lenses in your signature )

12-09-2010, 10:34 PM	#3
AlexanderMayorov Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Istanbul Photos: Gallery Posts: 466 Original Poster	Originally posted by rhodopsin Beautiful photo beautifully done imho! Thank you so much for sharing Mr. Mayorov! (I am also impressed by the list of lenses in your signature ) I have to update it Canon 5D gone, K-5 will be here next week.

12-10-2010, 01:08 AM	#4
akanarya Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Çankırı, Turkey Posts: 210	thanks for sharing here Alex

12-10-2010, 03:45 AM	#6
SebastianP Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Timisoara Photos: Albums Posts: 119	beautiful

12-10-2010, 04:08 AM	#7
AlexanderMayorov Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Istanbul Photos: Gallery Posts: 466 Original Poster	Originally posted by icywarm first off... I hate you... just putting that out there... I have just literary spent the last 2 hours talking myself out of a sigma 10-20... and I figure to suppress my LBA I'll go critic some photos and I bet I will not even care what lens they use... first one! Bam... oh that's nice and wide! DARN IT! ---------------- onto the photo ---------------- Interesting place you found there... and I think you took the right approach to capturing it with the long exposure... but two little things... with arch photos on this grand of scale I think you need to be bang on the money with having everything square and in the middle... however.. I think you are off to the right in your first photo... I can see 5ish windows on the left at the top and only 4 on the right... which carries through the whole photo twisting/skewing everything just a bit. secondly with long exposure sometimes you need to wait at your spot for hours for just the right person to come along and form a subject... in your case... i think the opposite is true... the person up close on the right does nothing for the image... maybe a quick retake once she was gone would be good... Everything else is neat and fine... i like the stars from the f27... colours are pleasing... well done... 4/5 Thanks a lot for your comments and critics. Suleymaniye is on of the most famous ones in Istanbul. Its been closed for visit for almost 2.5 years. Its been 3 weeks or maybe 1 month since they reopened it for visits. Its impossible to find this mosque empty. Maybe you will'be able to find it empty at 8 am ? However tourists sometimes are so impolite. They saw me trying to take photo but still they tend to get in the middle of the photo. I've tried a lot to find a moment to get clear photo but once someone sees me taking photo he get closer to me and trying the same photo. Thats why I was unable to get exactly in middle and with good exposure. Well, I'll take it as homework. I hope next week I will share with you a better photo. Here is one another. Last edited by AlexanderMayorov; 12-10-2010 at 04:09 AM. Reason: addition of photo

12-10-2010, 05:16 AM	#8
applejax Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Photos: Albums Posts: 271	Great shots. The geometry and lights make them very enjoyable to look at.

12-10-2010, 07:35 AM	#9
johnmflores Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Somerville, NJ Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 5,361	I like the first one best, as the latter two have a distinctive "I'm pointing up and going ultra wide so that I can fit the dome in this shot" feel to it. It sounds like you are really trying to capture the mosque without people in it - maybe an ND filter and smaller aperture to force a longer exposure? Won't take out everyone, but maybe people that a moving will ghost their way out. Alternately you can take multiple shots from a tripod and mix and match areas to remove folk? But I like the people in the first shot. The shot is not just about the building, but how people are interacting and relating to it. The person on the right - particularly with the bit of motion blur - acts as a gateway into the photo. And the silhouette of people along the railing adds a sense of mystery to me, makes me ask who they are and what they are doing. If this where my photo, I might try cropping it so that the round disk on the left column sits in the upper left and the person walking into the frame sits in the lower right. You'll be cutting off much of the dome, but you can always show the full beauty of it in another shot, right? Thanks for posting!

12-10-2010, 09:42 AM	#10
icywarm Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Saskatchewan Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 1,278	you mentioned maybe at 8 am it would be empty.... I would say than go at 8 am... one thing I have learned that if you want the perfect photo you need to control all the variables... but if that is not possible... try the ND filter it could help... it seems very interesting and I hope you don't tire of shooting it... some amazing detail in there!

12-10-2010, 11:06 AM	#11
Miguel Site Supporter Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Near Seattle Photos: Gallery Posts: 2,743	I like the first shot best. Having people in the frame connects spirituality with the physical building. What a wonderful place indeed. Have you performed any distortion correction on these shots? Thanks, M

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12-10-2010, 11:25 AM	#12
deathdream Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: kayseri Posts: 55	Süleymaniye Mosque - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia very nice shot of a very nice place (1). people praying in the first shot giving motion to image but that woman on the right side is a distraction. i hope u can shoot Suleymaniye Mosque better, and i hope people wont leave these historical places empty :] at the third shoot, main dome doesnt look like 53 m high. And the man at bottom left is making the photo feel like a snapshot.

12-11-2010, 01:22 PM	#13
AlexanderMayorov Veteran Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Istanbul Photos: Gallery Posts: 466 Original Poster

12-11-2010, 01:27 PM	#14
Ash Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Toowoomba, Queensland Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 23,920	Well done capture of this historic mosque. #1 is indeed the finest rendition and perspective. A touch of HDR or shadows/highlights treatment may work wonders on this particular scene given the large amount of shadow detail that features prominently in the architecture in this shot. Otherwise well done.

12-11-2010, 07:27 PM	#15
jbinpg Site Supporter Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Prince George, BC Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 3,546	Nice image, Alexander. Number 1 is my favorite. I would be very interested in a comparison shot taken with your new K-5 if that is even possible.