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- Category: Commons:Featured pictures/Places/Interiors/Religious buildings#United_Kingdom
Info Another photo from Freemasons' Hall taken during Open House weekend. This is of the Art Deco ceiling in the third vestibule outside the Grand Temple. The four blue panels represent heaven and the rose in each corner reflects the connection between England and Freemasonry. You can see another view of the ceiling and lamp here. The image is an HDR from five exposures. All by me -- Colin (talk) 20:05, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Support -- Colin (talk) 20:05, 1 October 2017 (UTC)- Support for the picture and the good documentation. -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 20:40, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
Oppose Not as good as the previous from the same place, especially due to the non centered disturbing lantern. + this ceiling is not extraordinary IMO. --Jebulon (talk) 21:45, 1 October 2017 (UTC)- Support --M★Zaplotnik (edits) 05:20, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 10:31, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support Great image. Christian Ferrer (talk) 11:40, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Famberhorst (talk) 17:43, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support Nice.--Agnes Monkelbaan (talk) 18:04, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose Per Jebulon --LivioAndronico (talk) 19:11, 2 October 2017 (UTC)
- Weak support The lamp bugs me too but I guess there was nothing you could have done about that. On the other hand, it helps when looking at the pic since it is so perfect otherwise that you could think it was a drawing. --cart-Talk 08:21, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, Cart. I used the magnification feature of the camera to attempt to align the image centre with the centre of the lamp/star. It is hard to ensure the camera is absolutely level when pointing straight up. The on-screen electronic level on my camera does not work at all in this position, so I am forced to judge by eye and also by checking the alignment of the straight lines in the image. I used Lightroom's guided adjustment feature to refine the verticals and horizontals to true. You can see from this picture that the lamp is suspended from four chains and is itself very deep. It is always possible the lamp may not be itself perfectly vertical or perfectly centred, and even a slight tilt (or camera misalignment) on such a tall lamp will be noticeable when viewed directly below. It is annoying, for such a geometric image. -- Colin (talk) 09:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- I'm more prone to think that misaligned light fixtures are due to the resident electrician than your camera skills. :-) --cart-Talk 09:27, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Nice of you to say, but I'm pretty sure I contributed to the error. If anyone knows of a way to ensure the camera is level, pointing up, I'd like to know. I wondered about taking a small spirit level and resting it on the front filter of the lens. Would get me some odd looks I'm sure. That wouldn't work for my Samyang fisheye, though, which has a bulbous lens and a curved permanently attached lens hood. I'm going to try one of those Arca Swiss clamps that have little levels on them, but don't know if (a) those levels are accurate enough and (b) I can fix the camera plate into them precisely enough for those levels to be relevant. The level on my phone camera is more sensitive (and useful in all orientations) than the one in my camera :-(. -- Colin (talk) 10:30, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Whichever level you choose, you will have to sight it just like you do with a rifle scope. No tool is perfect fresh from the store. --cart-Talk 12:05, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- It seems to me that perfect levelling with camera pointing upward can be achieved with a NN (I believe u own one). - Benh (talk) 18:29, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Nice of you to say, but I'm pretty sure I contributed to the error. If anyone knows of a way to ensure the camera is level, pointing up, I'd like to know. I wondered about taking a small spirit level and resting it on the front filter of the lens. Would get me some odd looks I'm sure. That wouldn't work for my Samyang fisheye, though, which has a bulbous lens and a curved permanently attached lens hood. I'm going to try one of those Arca Swiss clamps that have little levels on them, but don't know if (a) those levels are accurate enough and (b) I can fix the camera plate into them precisely enough for those levels to be relevant. The level on my phone camera is more sensitive (and useful in all orientations) than the one in my camera :-(. -- Colin (talk) 10:30, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- I'm more prone to think that misaligned light fixtures are due to the resident electrician than your camera skills. :-) --cart-Talk 09:27, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Thanks, Cart. I used the magnification feature of the camera to attempt to align the image centre with the centre of the lamp/star. It is hard to ensure the camera is absolutely level when pointing straight up. The on-screen electronic level on my camera does not work at all in this position, so I am forced to judge by eye and also by checking the alignment of the straight lines in the image. I used Lightroom's guided adjustment feature to refine the verticals and horizontals to true. You can see from this picture that the lamp is suspended from four chains and is itself very deep. It is always possible the lamp may not be itself perfectly vertical or perfectly centred, and even a slight tilt (or camera misalignment) on such a tall lamp will be noticeable when viewed directly below. It is annoying, for such a geometric image. -- Colin (talk) 09:17, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support Per cart, I actually like how the light warms up the middle of an otherwise cool picture. Daniel Case (talk) 16:43, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support Apart from the great colours, optimal sharpness and interesting composition, I especially like the way the lamp was captured.--Kiril Simeonovski (talk) 19:38, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support --Yann (talk) 09:54, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
- Support -- Pofka (talk) 20:04, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
Confirmed results:
This image will be added to the FP gallery: Places/Interiors/Religious buildings#United_Kingdom
