I was at the Fitzwilliam Museum here in Cambridge a few days ago and happened to look up. I may have looked up and seen the ceiling and the cupola before, but if I did then I don’t recall doing it.
I took two photographs within a few seconds of each other. I used the same camera for both shots. I had the camera in Manual mode. And because the scene was dark and I didn’t want to bump up the ISO, I took two shots with different shutter speeds. The first was 1/125th of a second. The second was at 1/15th of a second.
I knew that the shot at 1/125th of a second would produce and image that was too dark but I had the idea of opening it up in post processing or perhaps combining the two photos in post production by layering them in Photoshop.
Yes, I know – that was a very badly thought out idea. But I was sat on a bench and braced against a column, and that’s what I did.
So far so good.
I processed both images in Capture One 20 and here are the two photos.
Question:
Why is the cupola in the 1/15th second shot blue and in the 1/125th second shot it is gold?
That beats me. It looks as if the whole White Balance is different. The first one is much more pleasing to the eye … at least my eye 😊
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Me too, I like that one better.
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Each catches, is stressing different light: the gold from inside and blue outside.
To know for certain, just look at where the gilding glows most in each shot… Natural lighting from above catches the top; while interior highlights and magnifies from all the gold below; )
In spite of being taken in the same position, they both give an interesting and very different perspective because of this effect. Well done!
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Well thank you for the nice comment.
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Which is closer to what you saw with your eyes?
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Good question, and I don’t know. I will look next time I go. Thanks for the prompt.
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