St Agnes-The Forgotten Church of Detroit

[JRE313]

Here is more of the Forgotten Church of St Agnes in Detroit. Due to Detroit Finical difficulties, I doubt that this church will return. As far as the processing, I wanted to give the church sort of a spooky Grungy Effect to it. It is a very Gothic Style church. I really Hope you Enjoy this set.

Check it out!!!


St Agnes Main Hall by JRE313, on Flickr


St Agnes Back Wide Angle View by JRE313, on Flickr


St Agnes Pillars by JRE313, on Flickr


Another View Of St. Agnes by JRE313, on Flickr


St. Agnes, The Abandoned Church of Detroit by JRE313, on Flickr


Forgotten Graffiti by JRE313, on Flickr

 

[Bynx]

Oh wow, shooting in that church would be a dream to me. It would be great to have a bunch of people in old suits and dresses standing with prayer books singing hymns. Then you can shoot them. Then get them out of the shot and shoot again. In layers make them ghosts. As much as I hate graffiti that one looks fluorescent and just glows in all that gloomy atmosphere. Are you using Vips distortion lens in that church?

 

[JRE313]

Thanks bynx
i am using a sigma wide angle lens for most of them

 

[zombiemann]

Spectacular. The shot of the graffiti I feel like I could almost reach out and touch. Great capture

 

[vipgraphx]

Are you using Vips distortion lens in that church?

Suck a fat ding dong, I think my "PRO" quality lens cost more than all your equipment

 

[Bynx]

Are you using Vips distortion lens in that church?

Suck a fat ding dong, I think my "PRO" quality lens cost more than all your equipment

For so much distortion, I thought you were shooting through the botton of an old Coke bottle. Its funny tho, now whenever I see such distortion you always come to mind first. If you seriously paid a lot of money for that lens though Id take it back and get it replaced with one that works right. There is something definately wrong with it. If you shake it can you hear glass rolling around inside? I had an old pair of binoculars that seemed to work ok, but when I shook it I could hear the sound of broken glass rattling around inside. But even with that the distortion of the image when I looked through it wasnt as bad as your lens. I think maybe you have 2 or more pieces of glass that are broken.

 

[vipgraphx]

Nope lens is working perfect and just the way it should. Anyone who has this same lens will produce the same
distortion. It's whether or not one cares to use distortion control and correct it.
@14mm in a full frame camera is waaaay more wide than a 10mm on a d body thus more perspective..,that's what that lens is about, super wide!!!!

Not sure why you have to be that grumpy a$$ old man of the forum all the time? I did not even post in this thread and you have seemed to look for trouble every where... You really need to get over yourself like steve has said its not like your producing
anything waaaaaaay better than anyone else and at most your recent work has been ok at it's best...

 

[manaheim]

Beautifully done. Just watch that first one... Looks like you intended to dead center it and just barely missed.

Did you just walk into this church?

 

[Bynx]

Im not being grumpy at all. And you have reminded me something I forgot, that you are using full frame vs my smaller sensor size which makes your images more distorted. I shoot 10 a lot with my 10-20 and my distortion is really pretty good, but that has to do with sensor size. With all that said though, the distortion you get is really something I wouldnt allow. And on this Im serious. If you can 'fix' that you should. And if you cant well thats that. A fisheye is a gimmick that is bought with that in mind. But your lens just distorts too much in almost a normal looking image. Everything leaning inward to the center. Anyway, you are the person that comes to mind now when I see this kind of distortion. There is nothing mean intent on it just a fact. As for my images you are probably right. Ive been bored and with nothing of real interest to me to shoot and Im doing what I can with what Ive got. Im hoping to point my camera at something interesting sometime next month. Meanwhile if my stuff bores you there is always the IGNORE button.

 

[vipgraphx]

Im not being grumpy at all. And you have reminded me something I forgot, that you are using full frame vs my smaller sensor size which makes your images more distorted. I shoot 10 a lot with my 10-20 and my distortion is really pretty good, but that has to do with sensor size. With all that said though, the distortion you get is really something I wouldnt allow. And on this Im serious. If you can 'fix' that you should. And if you cant well thats that. A fisheye is a gimmick that is bought with that in mind. But your lens just distorts too much in almost a normal looking image. Everything leaning inward to the center. Anyway, you are the person that comes to mind now when I see this kind of distortion. There is nothing mean intent on it just a fact. As for my images you are probably right. Ive been bored and with nothing of real interest to me to shoot and Im doing what I can with what Ive got. Im hoping to point my camera at something interesting sometime next month. Meanwhile if my stuff bores you there is always the IGNORE button.

If your not grumpy than i have no idea why you act the way you do. I know it's sunday but, did you drink to much of that church wine or something? Do you really think its necessary to bring my user name into this thread? It seems like you purposely find things to argue about just for the sake of it these days. If its not with me or steve or who ever else. There are many things I don't care for in your processed HDR's but, I don't go around telling people when they first start off if they are using Bynx's presets either...Sometimes your images are flat and lack dark tones and its been said before. When you post and someone critiques there is always an excuse for you .. oh not enough time, not much to work with and so on....but your very fast to make big deals about small things in others.

If you search the web and look at images that have been shot with a full frame camera and a 14-24 if there is no correction it all looks the same. I understand you don't like it but that really does not mean you have to go out of your way and post comments like you did in this thread. You could have just said I don't care for the distortion. The wider the lens the more perspective it will give and will result in lens distortion. Every wide lens has it even yours but you probably correct it, JRE313 has the same sigma I think as you and his has it but he did not correct it. I personally think it gives a very interesting feel to the images , thats just my opinion and like. Trey Ratcliff also uses the famous Nikon 14-24 and gets the same results as many others as well. This lens is very very nice and is praised as one of "the best" ultra wide angle lenses to have...its for a reason! Just because you don't like something does not mean its bad..all it means is you don't like it. .

Yes I can use the ignore button the same as you could learn to have self control.

 

[FanBoy]

Spectacular work, especially with the stained glass windows/outdoor exposure.

 

[Bynx]

I really didnt know you were such a sensitive guy VIP. I will endeavor to not use your name in any further posts. I hate to see a grown man cry.

 

[vipgraphx]

I really didnt know you were such a sensitive guy VIP. I will endeavor to not use your name in any further posts. I hate to see a grown man cry.

Its not about being sensitive or not its about not trolling around the forum and making an a$$ out of yourself all the time. If you have a beef with me then cool lets deal with it in PM's I know you like to rant and talk trash in that form....from past postings I have seen from you from that personal message you sent another member...

If we were in person things would be much different I know it. Its always easy to be an internet thug and act all tuff but in person things would be much different, in fact you might be the one left crying.

Its funny how your the main reason why most threads get shut down and closed....your all talk an no bark I bet!!!

 

[vipgraphx]

By the way JRE...nice set, I really like these you did a good job! I think you have proven to be serious about what you are doing and find very interesting things and places to shoot.

 

[JRE313]

By the way JRE...nice set, I really like these you did a good job! I think you have proven to be serious about what you are doing and find very interesting things and places to shoot.

Yo VIP
Thanks man, The reason why I did not fix the distortion is because I don't know how
Probably wont fix the image.