I've always liked the technical challenge of taking photographs in churches and cathedrals: this photograph was taken in Winchester Cathedral in October 1985 using an Exa 500 35mm single-lens reflex camera (the baby brother of the long discontinued Exacta family, made by Ihagee). It wasn't a particularly expensive camera, but as you see with careful handling it was capable of fine results. Nowadays I use a medium-priced digital camera, and the irony is that it won't handle this sort of photo at all well - I would have to buy a much more expensive one to get similar results. I should admit to using some digital shaping to get rid of the sloping walls that result when you point the camera upwards. There are some more photos taken in the same
session on Flickr,
including a close-up
of the magnificent carved stone screen behind the altar. |
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