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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+73Oh wow something original for once, a HDR image.
oh wait... - bofhcabbit, on 10/12/2007, -14/+56I am so insanely sick of HDR photography. It's just tacky.
- VarianX, on 10/12/2007, -9/+47It's amazing how many synonyms there are for the word "Amazing":
- astonishing
- astounding
- awe-inspiring
- bewildering
- breathtaking
- electrifying
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- first-class
- hair-raising
- heart-stirring
- impressive
- incredible
- magnificent
- marvelous
- miraculous
- overwhelming
- phenomenal
- prodigious
- sensational
- spectacular
- spine-tingling
- staggering
- startling
- striking
- stunning
- stupefying
- stupendous
- surprising
- thrilling
- unreal
- unbelievable
- unimaginable
- unmatched
- unparalleled
- unprecedented
- unreal
- unsurpassed
- wonderful
- wondrous
And if you're not into the whole vocabulary thing, there's always "really good" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+46It's not HDR. It's just a long exposure. Jesus people, read a ***** book.
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26OMFG AMAZING!!1 FANTASTIC!!1 Yet ANOTHER HDR from StuckInCustoms on the front page! Woo-FRIGGIN-Hoo, I'm absolutely ecstatic.
Seriously, it's good work, but come on. Are we going to front page every photo the guy takes? - hello2usir, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23Amen.
And if I want to see Flickr content I'll just go straight to Flickr. - dacheetah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I can be done well, but posting every single boring HDR image you find to digg IS tacky.
I haven't as yet seen an HDR image posted on digg that has managed to wow me at all. There are plenty of awesome images that get dugg, but the HDRs I've seen have all been boring. - surfmadpig, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19I live in Greece, and such Orthodox churches with murals are all over the place. I guess they're fascinating for someone who hasn't seen them, but I have to say, Orthodox Christians saints' portraits are grimly stern and ugly. I guess they're depicted like that to symbolize their hardships, fasting and martyrdom, but they sure scared me when i was a toddler. for example http://www.ecclesia.gr/images/ypapanti.jpg
- eltower, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15I don't know. Perhaps it's because I live in Catholic Spain, but every time I go to the Greek Orthodox church in Madrid (for the lack of a Serbian Orthodox one) - that is, once a year on the 7th of January for Christmas - it feels nice and warm and cosy. It's small, and the colours and lighting is absolutely stunning, even for a small parish.
I hope nobody takes offence, but from an aesthetic point of view, catholic churches seem cold and sterile and way too rich to be the self proclaimed spokespeople of Jesus who was meant to be austere. - antonio97b, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Are we going to feature this guys entire photo gallery? I mean he had the ship picture a few weeks ago. This is from the same person!
Please make it stop. - MrSunshine, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11> AMAZING HDR?
NO! PLEASE DIE! - CheezIt9109, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I love the comparison to GoW.
It's not "Wow, GoW has stuff that looks like it came from real life!"
It's "Wow, real life has stuff that looks straight out of GoW!" - Xanin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12You haven't seen decent HDRs, the ones that get on digg are overdone to the extreme. HDR should make photos realistic
- hiPpymIck, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13wow thats a lot of......GOLD
....reminds me im checking out this 'missing link' in the history of the East/West divide
http://digg.com/podcasts/12_Byzantine_Rulers_The_History_of_The_Byzantine_Empire
he explains the Roman Empire divided into Eastern & Western halves
the Western fell and went on to be modern Western Europe
the Eastern went on for another 1500 years in an unbroken line of Emperors directly from the first Roman Emperor
amazing! - Brows, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I'm so sick of every title of picture diggs saying "HDR" when every single one is just a jpg.
It's a nice photo, but not worth a digg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7yeah, the grim faces of orthodox christianity are supposed to show hardship and a void of exaggerated emotions. it's discussed a lot in that theology, not hard to find texts on it i guess. scared me too as a kid a bit.
- linuxinit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12No... this is the fullsize:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/167/376850340_e7b2b73df3_o.jpg
And it looks like total crap. Where are the shadows? Where is the mystery? HDR is so overdone. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Buried as lame because of the title
Looks like something from Gears of War? What in gods ***** name are you smoking? - jamble, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7digg needs a stuckincustoms section for this guy's photos.
They're superb but it does seem that only a matter of days go by before another one is posted! - wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You used the word "pix."
Opinion = nullified. - Liggmin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7digg needs a picture section.
- Dimb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yay. My home country. =] But seriously. If you like StuckInCustom's photos so much just sign up for his feed. Don't need to post every single picture he takes on Digg. Even if they are really good. =]
- VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@PabloMac, this cathedral was probably built before your protestant religion was even invented! That is the great thing about Orthodoxy, a Cathedral from 33 AD looks the same as one from 1930 AD. You also might want to read the 7 Ecumenical Councils of the united Christian Church. The 7th calls Iconoclasm a heresy. Everyone believed that until the late 1500's when men started making up protestant religions based on their own new personal interpretations of the Bible.
- juicebag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4NO MORE HDR IMAGES!!
- rebuilder, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9who says it's HDR anyway? It's not. This is a single exposure, you can't really have moving objects in HDR, since it combines many exposures of the same view.
- JavertHolmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I thought the point of HDR was to deal with high and low light levels simultaneously in a single image, resulting in a photo that represents more like the reality of seeing it in person. Every HDR image I see posted on Digg looks like someone went into a dark room and set their exposure time to 40 seconds.
On the other hand, I also think a great selling point for a cell phone would be reliable reception as opposed to how many megapixels the camera is on it, so what do I know? - mwsherman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+81) That's really inappropriate to take a photos of. It's a holy site. I've been in this cathedral before. There are signs in English and Cyrillic (Russian/Ukrainian) as well as no photography icons (a camera in a red circle and slash, like a no smoking sign with a camera instead of a cigarette). It's just plain disrespectful.
2) It's gold leaf, it's not actually very valuable. It's extremely thin, but looks great. It's really danged old - the reason the iconoclast is so valuable is the craftmanship and scale of the construction, not because of the gold. It goes back to the 18th century, I think. These giant iconoclasts took years and years to make. A master craftsman could spend half their lifetime on one easily, or an entire team of people could spend 5 to 10 years. Remember, the chruch was the economy that far back, so they were just creating jobs. Haha!
3) Plenty of Orthodox Catherdrals look like this. You don't see photos of them much because it's TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE to take photos.
4) It's just a long exposure. We've got movement and a blurry light, which should be a giveaway. The main reason it's a long exposure--it's pretty dark inside the cathedral. And if you're going to be taking a disallowed photo, you have to turn your flash off. Dude was just taking a picture. I do have to give him credit for the hands though--pretty steady. - SixSider, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Stuck In Customs is the photog's blog. Amazing stuff.
http://stuckincustoms.com/
(And, I'll point out, he IS a gamer.) - Mocib, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Meh.
HDR is over-rated. - Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Wow, you mean a whole church was built to look like Gears of War?!?!?!?
I'm so whelmed over that the church would do that.
Eastern Orthodox Gaming Nerds Rock. - rheaume, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Oh come on, you could always use more of 'UNREAL HDR of KEVIN ROSE holding IPHONE running UBUNTU and RUBY ON RAILS', who couldnt.
- clesch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Amazing! HDR!
dugg!
ok, no - not really :/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4***** ugly, personally i find stupidity ugly
- Jake2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yay. Another overdone HDR which looks like epeleptic-hellraiser CGI. Nice one.
- Luuvitonen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Way cool!
By this rate we will see stuckincustoms' whole flicker photostream as separate front page diggs by the end of the month. Seriously. Watch through it, but don't post it here anymore, thank you. - UrbanePlanner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That is a nice photo of a beautiful Orthodox church. I must ask, what kind of ignorant idiot compares an ancient religious shrine to a video game with a shelf life of three years?
Just asking. - MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4STOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPP WRIIITEEEEEEEEEE AMAZING!!!!
- spargett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone please kill me. "OMG another AMAZING HDR PHOTO!@#!@ WE MUST PARADE IN THE STREETS!@# ALL HAIL THE HOLY PHOTOSHOP PLUG-IN!!!!!"
HDR is the cheapest form of photography. Look at that one, its crooked as *****! Its makes people who know nothing about photography think they are amazing photographers. - ksciur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Orthodox Church - Yes.
Catholic Cathedral - Yes.
"Orthodox Cathedral"? such a thing doesn't exist.
There is a fundamental architectual difference between cathedral and the church. just look on google images.
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=cathedral
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=orthodox+church - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A no photography policy typically has flash photography in mind, as many flashes over time can fade the artwork. Since this photograph used existing lighting, the photographer probably received permission.
- battleroyalex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Im sorry but this photo crap is getting really annoying. HDR PHOTO OMG DIGG DIGG
- eN1X, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This photo is not very good at all..how the hell did it get so many diggs!?
- Snarfy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Long exposures and HDR are NOT the same thing.
You need one of these to even properly view an HDR image: http://www.brightsidetech.com/ A normal CRT or LCD cannot properly display an HDR image.
There are long exposures, HDR images, and HDR rendering. All three are different things. When most people think HDR they are thinking HDR rendering (e.g. Half Life 2). - AlvyB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What, is Digg everyones personal photo blog now? I love photography and all, but there is nothing "amazing" about this photo.
- rlh1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Pictures in medieval churches looked grim and the outlook of life looked grim because the life expectancy in the Middle ages, and all the way up to the 1800 was about 30 years old.
- stalefries, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Buried as HDR... oh, wait. I guess Lame works in this case.
- Lorwik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A good tutorial on HDR Photography: http://www.hdrjapan.com/photography/tutorials/hdr-photography/
- romanboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31. yup :)
2. yup :)
3. yup :) i'm romanian orthdox, and this is indeed a sight to be amazed by. Especially in HDR.
4. maybe not quite?
it was taken this way: (this is the way to take an HDR photo, high dynamic range)
you set your camera to take photos at different apertures, so you take 10-20 photos of the same still object, using different aperture settings, across the whole range of aperture settings.
and then, using photoshop, you "merge HDR".
here's the logic behind it:
you take dark photos, which accentuate the dark parts of the photo, and you keep taking lighter and lighter photos, so you have as larger as possible range of colour.
in the end you end up with dark photos with very very good dark patches in them, and mid range photos, with good mid ranges, and you guessed it, light photos with good light bits in them.
and photoshop, with the "merge HDR" function, takes all your photos, and makes them happy. takes the best dark, the best mid, and the best light bits in the photos you took, and makes a very very high, 32 bit photo. now... i know what some of you might say. photoshop can't use 32 bit images very well. yes, but it can display them. and transform them into 16 bit tiffs.
:)
as for the "ghost"? hahahahahhahaha. it's priest that was caught by one of the shots, using probably on of the lighter settings. the trick with HDR images is to have the same shot every time, it helps if nothing moves.
a bit like snarfy said, higher up.
http://digg.com/users/Snarfy
i like all the positive responses that we got here. -
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