Nov 29

Inside Sultanhammet mosque in the old part of Istanbul.

A magical place, quiet, with devotion, where you can walk bare feet on thick carpet with a whirling crowd of tourists. Really nice.

Behind the shot : The camera was handheld on the ground...hmm on the thick carpet i mean. I used bracketing mode and took several sets as many people were passing in this place. The Post treatment was done in Lightroom for each of the pic. Then I used photomatix to make HDRs. At last I merged several HDRs in Cs3 to have less people in the frame and a quieter atmosphere. Next the sharpness is OK in the center, it was quite bad on edges. So I added some light painting layers to simulate the light rays and take the blur edge out of attention. Hope it works.

Until next time...