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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830952" data-attributes="member: 53455">A Carolingian crypt brought back to life (2025)In March 2025, I finally managed to obtain all the authorizations (I’d been working on them for more than six months!) necessary to photograph the Merovingian (I date it from around Year 500) crypt of Saint-Domitien (Domitian?), on the grounds of the abbey of Saint-Rambert (Ragnebert?), somewhere in the pre-Alpine Bugey mountains of France.Being out-of-bounds to the public, the crypt is almost not lit at all. It is darker than the back wall in the photo below and one has to use a headlamp or flashlight to more or less see where one is going in most parts of the crypt. Really felt like an Indiana Jones movie in there, minus the snakes of course. Having been told about the darkness, I did bring two of my own flashes, both in order not to have to pose each shot for a couple of minutes, and to maintain color consistency and accuracy throughout the shoot. For this photo I set up a Godox AD600 Pro II (about 10 times the power of a cobra flash) on a light stand to the left, lighting the axis of the crypt up to the altar in a semi-harsh, Sun-like manner (using a silver beauty dish). Then I walked around with an AD200 Pro II (about 3 times the power of a cobra flash) which I popped here and there at the ceiling in various other parts of the frame. The AD200 was equipped with a dome-shaped diffuser so as to make the light soft and even. All those shots were then composited in Photoshop.Nikon Z7 II, Micro-Nikkor 45mm, ƒ/2.8 D PC tilt-shift macro lens, manual focus, FTZ II adapter. Gitzo tripod, K&F Concept geared head. Multi-flash lighting.[ATTACH=full]417224[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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