{"id":787,"date":"2008-04-20T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T15:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2014-08-07T20:12:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T20:12:27","slug":"photo-of-the-week-9-the-light-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2008\/04\/20\/photo-of-the-week-9-the-light-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week 9 &#8211; The Light of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I haven&#8217;t had some sort of epiphany, I&#8217;m still every bit as agnostic as ever, however, I think the title fits the photograph perfectly. I took this image months ago but was never quite happy with it until yesterday. So what&#8217;s changed? I converted the image to partially black &#038; white using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=784\">technique I described yesterday<\/a>. I had a hunch this image would work well partially mono-chormoed but my jaw still dropped when I saw the result. It went from a picture with promise to one of my very favourite photos.<\/p>\n<p>The image is of one of the stained glass windows on the back of the Gunne Chapel on the campus of St. Patrick&#8217;s College in Maynooth, Ireland. I took it shortly before Christmas last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bbusschots\/2427670757\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/thelightofchrist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Light of Christ\" width=\"325\" height=\"464\" style=\"border-width:0px;\" \/><br \/>Click to Enlarge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you interested in such things here are some of the technical details of the shot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Camera:<\/strong> Nikon D40<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lens:<\/strong> Sigma EX 30mm 1:1.4 DC HSM<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure:<\/strong> 1\/15 Sec<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Length:<\/strong> 30mm<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focal Ratio:<\/strong> F1.4<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISO:<\/strong> 800<\/li>\n<li><strong>Camera Mode:<\/strong> Aperture Priority<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exposure Compensation:<\/strong> -1.0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Post Processing:<\/strong> Partially converted to black &#038; white with the GIMP.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic\"><strong style=\"color:red\">Updated (21 April 2008):<\/strong> At the request of Paul in the comments I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=774\">tilt-shifted<\/a> this shot too. Personally I&#8217;m not over-joyed with the results. You can find the tilt-shifted version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/dsc-2122-partialbw-tiltshifted.jpg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]Photography, partial black &#038; white, stained glass, Maynooth, Ireland[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I haven&#8217;t had some sort of epiphany, I&#8217;m still every bit as agnostic as ever, however, I think the title fits the photograph perfectly. I took this image months ago but was never quite happy with it until yesterday. So what&#8217;s changed? 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