Mosteiro dos Jeronimos Photo

Photographer’s Note

Just saw a beautiful documentary about Cristina Branco and Custodio Castelo, and their beautiful music. Cristina is very popular in the Netherlands, but there's also another link, she has put beautiful poems of the Dutch poet J.J. Slauerhoff to music. Texts of the CD 'Cristina canta Slauerhoff' in Dutch and Portuguese can be found here. Actually, listening to her music right now, and how I wished I could understand what she is singing about!
Thus I was inspired tonight to find a nice picture of Lisboa. It's the church of the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos in Lisboa, build in 1502, and renovated completely a few years back. The monastery is the most ambitious and succesful achievement of Manueline architecture.
I have already uploaded a picture of the roof

Tech, skewed a little bit, unsharp mask and with the sharpen tool the front columns a bit extra, and added a frame.

Galeota, nwoehnl, cmartos, bertolucci, Garry01, sunny, jhonny_blue, joseelias, smael has marked this note useful

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Hanssie (9133) 2004-05-30 15:39

Ik had je dak inderdaad al gezien, die is geweldig. Hier dan het gehele heiligdom, heel mooi, maar... als ik mag zeggen, Rinie, ikzelf had de camera iets meer naar rechts gehouden, zodat het glas-in-lood-raam er toch niet op zou staan... Goed licht en mooi geheel verder !

Galeota (10334) 2004-05-30 16:09

The composition and the light are marvellous. It seems to me that the photo lacks of resolution though, which is a pitty. This is the summum of manueline style, just prevbious to renaissance. Beautiful monastery!

nwoehnl (120) 2004-05-30 17:25

A beautiful church interior, Rinie. Great perspective along the very ornate pillars towards the altar, and I like how you manage to show us the full height of this imposing building. Good use of different light sources, my only wish would be for a tad more sharpness/resolution. Well done and as always a fine job on the note.

bertolucci (12022) 2004-05-30 17:46

Mooie compo Rinie, lekker eigenwijs net niet symmetrisch. Belichting en kleuren laten dit rijke gothische gebouw fraai uitkomen. Leuk om 'm in 't geheel te zien. Sherpte is inderdaad niet je dat, maar soit.
Goede aanleiding om deze te posten, ik zag de docu ook - fantastisch! Vandaag dus alleen Christina, Mafalda Arnauth, Mariza en Katia Guerrero in de CD-wisselaar.
Fine job!

pamastro (7215) 2004-05-30 17:47

It's very nice lighting. And I love the spaciousness of this photograph. It really puts me in the place. The decorations are great and the stonework, too. I think you did good not further sharpening it since it already seems a bit rough on some of the fine details. Nicely photographed.

Garry01 (0) 2004-05-31 3:23

la composition, offran un éclairage plus pronocé sur le coeur est intéressannte ; le travail réalisé sur les colonnes semble être de toute beauté et mériterait peut-être à lui seul une photo ... c'est très imposant.

cmartos (6086) 2004-05-31 4:28

Wonderful composition and magic light here. Very well catched with an excellent POV and angle. A pitty that there is a lack of sharpness, it seems to come from a low shutter speed here. Nothing grave though, the rendition is wonderful and once more, the lighting really magic. A Wonderful catch Rinie!

yesterday (9787) 2004-05-31 4:30

Very beautiful. Good perspective, good composed, wonderful light, good texture, and beautiful color. Great work, vell done.

sunny (3068) 2004-05-31 10:02

The light and the golden tones here are fantastic, Rinie! :-) Lovely depth and perspective, despite the not too big space of the space inside. The ornated pillars are gorgeous elements, beautifying the shot in a fine way. Very well done!

cdewet (0) 2004-05-31 13:12

Hi Rinie
Ek het die tipe ding al probeer skiet, en dis vrek moeilik! Ek dink jy het baie goed geslaag in die beligting, dis 'n puik Foto! Jou diepte van veld kan verbeter met F16 of kleiner, maar dan het jy 'n driepoot modig en die mag mens gewoonlik nie in kerke gebruik nie.

jhonny_blue (4954) 2004-06-01 4:24

Wonderful place to pictures !
Very good job !

joseelias (367) 2004-06-01 8:05

Very nice POV with an assimetric vision of the columns. I really must get back to this monastery as all my previous shots were terrible...

The colors are also nice as wel the detail although the image seems to suffer a bit from the compression.

Rockyboy (20582) 2004-06-01 16:19

Amazing church interior! The gold color is very nice and your framing is very good. Well done, Rinie and well come back too! (maybe a bit late to say that! :) )

smael (2878) 2004-06-03 18:58

This one is a decent interior shot, but I'm a bit annoyed by the bright window between the columns...
The rest is ok, not less not more...
I like your note!

Terje