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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822807" data-attributes="member: 53455"><p>As I think I mentioned before, my specialty in heritage photography is Romanesque and pre-Romanesque churches. The age of the Romanesque being, roughly, between 1000 and 1200, it is of course part of the Middle Ages. In June of this year (2024), the French city of Lyon, near which I live, hosted a worldwide, one-week seminar that would be the equivalent of the G7 Summit for Mediævalists: once a year, they congregate from all over the world to discuss highly specialized and arcane topics, and this year, the venue was Lyon. It also happens that one of my friends from the US, a University professor <em>emerita</em> of Mediæval art history, was invited to participate and give a speech during that week-long seminar. On one of her free days, we arranged to meet and I drove her down to the Drôme region, a one-hour drive from Lyon, to see a couple of Romanesque churches she did not already know. The trip went well, we had a nice lunch in a typical French village, and she was ecstatic at being able to buy fresh fruit and produce from a little roadside vendor whom I knew had an excellent reputation.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, this is one of the photos I took in the church of Chantemerle-les-Blés (can’t find a more poetic and bucolic name!). It doesn’t <em>show</em> much, but I like it because I think it describes well what I call “The Light of the Romanesque”, a special kind of light (I think!) that plays so well on the old stones and sometimes, when one is lucky, makes them sing for you...</p><p></p><p>Technically, it was not easy because of the enormous dynamic range between the brightest and the darkest parts. The Z7 II has a splendid dynamic range of 14.7 EVs at the base ISO value of 64 (an iconic number for me as it was the sensitivity of my beloved Kodachrome, back in the film days), the best there is, to my knowledge, unless you hit medium format which has other downsides. That dynamic range is the reason I was not interested in acquiring a Z8 or Z9, as those otherwise great cameras would have been less good than the Z7 II in that domain that is key for me. However, there was too much contrast here even for the Z7 II’s sensor and I played it safe by taking two exposures which I then composited in Photoshop.</p><p></p><p>Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 100-400mm ƒ/4.5–5.6 VR S lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]408836[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 822807, member: 53455"] As I think I mentioned before, my specialty in heritage photography is Romanesque and pre-Romanesque churches. The age of the Romanesque being, roughly, between 1000 and 1200, it is of course part of the Middle Ages. In June of this year (2024), the French city of Lyon, near which I live, hosted a worldwide, one-week seminar that would be the equivalent of the G7 Summit for Mediævalists: once a year, they congregate from all over the world to discuss highly specialized and arcane topics, and this year, the venue was Lyon. It also happens that one of my friends from the US, a University professor [I]emerita[/I] of Mediæval art history, was invited to participate and give a speech during that week-long seminar. On one of her free days, we arranged to meet and I drove her down to the Drôme region, a one-hour drive from Lyon, to see a couple of Romanesque churches she did not already know. The trip went well, we had a nice lunch in a typical French village, and she was ecstatic at being able to buy fresh fruit and produce from a little roadside vendor whom I knew had an excellent reputation. Anyway, this is one of the photos I took in the church of Chantemerle-les-Blés (can’t find a more poetic and bucolic name!). It doesn’t [I]show[/I] much, but I like it because I think it describes well what I call “The Light of the Romanesque”, a special kind of light (I think!) that plays so well on the old stones and sometimes, when one is lucky, makes them sing for you... Technically, it was not easy because of the enormous dynamic range between the brightest and the darkest parts. The Z7 II has a splendid dynamic range of 14.7 EVs at the base ISO value of 64 (an iconic number for me as it was the sensitivity of my beloved Kodachrome, back in the film days), the best there is, to my knowledge, unless you hit medium format which has other downsides. That dynamic range is the reason I was not interested in acquiring a Z8 or Z9, as those otherwise great cameras would have been less good than the Z7 II in that domain that is key for me. However, there was too much contrast here even for the Z7 II’s sensor and I played it safe by taking two exposures which I then composited in Photoshop. Nikon Z7 II, Nikkor Z 100-400mm ƒ/4.5–5.6 VR S lens. Gitzo tripod, Benro geared head. [ATTACH type="full"]408836[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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