Lussier Photography

The Falls

 

Just a quick post today. An older image from the archives that I was playing around last night.

Unitarian Memorial Church #6

 

When I set my tripod on the ledge behind the organ in the choir loft in the Unitarian Church, I didn’t intend to shoot to capture another vertorama. But when I looked through the viewfinder I thought it might be a nice compliment to the vertorama from the back of the church.

This one was a bit more challenging. I had switched to the smaller tripod with the ball-head, so keeping the axis straight as I pivoted the camera up was next to impossible. I’m thrilled with the way Photoshop compensated for the shifts in the stitching processing.

On another note:
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Steel

 

This image has been sitting in my catalog for a long time – over a year. It was shot around dusk at a (duh) Steel Facility in Lawrence. I was going to post it around the time I shot it didn’t quite work for me.

I came across it last night while I was looking for something to post today and I decided to do a BW conversion on it. It suddenly popped for me.

 

Stacked

 

Here is a shot from a warehouse. I visited it a couple of weeks ago to practice my vertorama shooting technique before I went to the Unitarian Church. I needed a place with a high ceiling and this fit the bill. After I got the shots for the vertorama, I dropped down low to get this shot. I really liked what the distortion of the 14mm lens did with the symmetry of this towering aisle.

So how did I get in here? How did I get access? Let’s just say I know some “Top Men.”

Oh, and that vertorama test shot … I did post it to Google+ after I processed it but I have a newer version which I will post here later this week.

I also have a couple of other shots from the Unitarian Memorial Church to share.

 

Unitarian Memorial Church #5

 

With the sun low in the sky, the stained glass was glowing. I thought one more wide shot in low light would be great, so we turned out the lights.

Then I remembered there was a single row of lights along the baseboard behind the pulpit and wondered what kind of mood they would create in the dark. I asked Sherpa Fran to turn them on. As soon as he did, this church took on a glow. The pulpit separated from the facade of the choir loft, the blue tones of the stained glass windows provided contrast to the warmth of the exquisitely toned wood and the distortion of the 14mm lens provided a nice sense of drama.

It all came together.

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