When @neilru75 told me that a giant moon had been positioned inside Lincoln Cathedral, I knew I had to go take a look for myself.
Lincoln Cathedral was built by the Normans after their 1066 conquest of England. The cathedral was once the tallest structure in Europe and possibly the world for hundreds of years. It's certainly an impressive building and the medieval builders certainly knew their stuff! The cathedral is and has been undergoing renovation and is in apparent pristine condition for such an old building.
Lincoln is located in the county of Lincolnshire, in the east of England. Lincolnshire is famous for being mostly very flat and the cathedral is located on the highest ground around in the area. One notable street name nearby is known as Steep Hill, I can't think why!?
So tonight Neil and I arranged to meet up in an expensive city centre car park and made our way inside the cathedral. The doors opened at 6:30 and unusually there was no entrance fee. I think we may have been expected to make a kind donation but somehow I forgot on my way out! Oops.
Once inside, and we were pretty much the first to get in, I set about shooting the moon inside which was around 6mtrs in diameter and you certainly had no chance of missing it!
Moonshot
I got lucky and bagged this before the throng of Instagrammers turned up all trying to postion their hands as though they were holding up the moon.
Zoom pulling on the moon
Being a lightpainting photographer, I couldn't help myself and started zoom pulling on the moon!
Cross about the cross
I'm not religious in the slightest but when I spotted this cross, I couldn't help but marvel how good the dynamic range on my Sony A7iii was when I shot wide open to throw the moon out of focus. A quick edit in Photoshop raising the shadows picks out the detail in the expensive looking brass!
Shooting the shooter
I brought along a bag of lenses this evening for every eventuality. In this case, I used a Samyang 12mm full frame fisheye lens and captured this photographer who unwittingly stood still for the 30 second exposure.
One unexpected thing appeared here though; what the heck is the blue light trail on the left side of the frame? Answers please!!
Fisheye
I carried on wandering around with the fisheye lens and bagged this 30 second exposure tilting the camera back as far as I dare to distort every straight line!
The Fisheye Moonshot!
Another shot of the moon, this time with the fisheye
The Panorama Experiment
I've tried stitch panorama photography before with varying degrees of success. This is the resized version of 17 x 24 megapixels images stitched together in Photoshop. I had to resize this to make it fit on to the Hive. The original image was 16634 x 7124 pixels and shot in two rows of 8 images. That's 118.5 megapixels!
And here it is edited and also resized to fit on the Hive!
Shooting @neilru75 in action
I have a camera which takes 10 frames per second and here I got lucky with two out of focus passers by walking in to frame!
The Cathedral
On our way back to the car park before the traffic warden could give us a ticket, I took a custom white balance reading off the building because the horrible orange sodium lighting has never done my eyes any good!
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The Lincoln Cathedral has got to be the favorite cathedral out of all those I've been,I was absolutely in awe when I stepped inside. I can image with the Moonshot how stunning that would have been as I saw it in Ely Cathedral in summer. Did you know that if you stood 2xx feet away from it, it's exactly like you're standing at earth looking at the real moon? I read about that after I came back from Ely.
By the way, can you please pin this to pineapple https://pinmapple.com/ please? Would love to curate it. Cheers
Thanks, I always think when I enter this building that the medieval builders had no clue how photogenic a structure they were building! Thanks for the heads up for the pin; duly pinned! :-)
Very impressive building and cool shots.
Thanks mate, it's on again tonight if you want to meet me there? 🤣
🤔🤔🤔... No, sorry. A bit too far away. 🤣😂
If you set off now you may just arrive in time! 😂😂
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Argh, you lucky Europeans and your insaneoid Architecture and cities 😚 I gotta get my buttocks back out there. What a place, and with it, such pics 😀 The cross is cool and the fisheye is wowowow... all I have around me is boring forests(I'd give it a 3.5/10 on forest,) but soon it's getting warmer so I will venture out with some lights at least in the night and make it less boring 😄 those -30 nights get kinda rough in the meantime.
Thanks @synrg I don't envy the -30 nights but I wouldn't mind swapping for your dark skies!
Fair enough. Yeah its nice at night for sure. Although I’ve heard with the increasing space garbage and thousands of satellites having been and slated to be launched, if things keep going the way they truly dark skies are gonna be a thing of the past, starlink, amazon etc. Not sure how doomsday the sky is falling/brightening that forecast but a cursory google into the topic confirmed it was indeed a thing for astrophotographers and just even stargazing, the increasing global light pollution... 🤔
Amazing photos! Especially the experimental panoramics. Beautiful.
Thanks very much, I will eventually make one I'm totally happy with!
Really great shots Chris, looking forward to getting mine edited and uploaded shortly too 👍
Thanks for the heads up on the moon, tempted to go back and find a darker spot inside and do a bit of light waving....
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