Me and 'Stephanie Foote Photography' took a fairly quick stop at Truro Cathedral on the way to Tehidy Country Park yesterday to photograph the fantastic architecture. I had this shot planned for when we arrived, it is a stitch of around 7 images. The problem with this cathedral is that it wasn't built straight, this means that you cant get a symmetrical shot (like the one to the right) from the very back of the cathedral. In a way this worked quite well for me as the vertical panorama allowed me to get the best parts of the of the building into the frame, without any unwanted details. The seating in the cathedral was not what I was expecting at all. Roughly the first 10 rows of seating were small plastic seats, like the type we all used to sit on at primary school, so I decided to cut these out of the frame.
We actually only got around half an hour to photograph because of an unexpected ordeal to get a permit. It turns out that you need a permit if you are going to use a tripod inside the Cathedral, so bear that in mind if you are planning on doing anything like this. It cost a fiver to get the permit and by the time we were done with that, we didn't have as long of we wanted to photograph. Another thing to take into account if you go here is that you cannot take any images if there is a service, you can't use flash and you cant go to any parts where there is currently a private service taking place. To the bottom right of the image, there was a small chapel which had a christening happening and so we couldn't go over to that area of the building.
Here's another image from the morning. Actually, this is the first image that I took. The hardest part of this was finding the very centre on the floor and as you can see from the slight difference between the upper triangles on the very left and right and the lower ones. However I don't think anybody would actually notice this, as most people aren't as picky as me! So what is probably the first thing we do when we walk into a building like this... look up! And I found myself doing exactly that, therefore I decided to take this photograph. With some slight cropping and perspective warping I have got it as close to symmetrical as I think I possibly could.
We actually only got around half an hour to photograph because of an unexpected ordeal to get a permit. It turns out that you need a permit if you are going to use a tripod inside the Cathedral, so bear that in mind if you are planning on doing anything like this. It cost a fiver to get the permit and by the time we were done with that, we didn't have as long of we wanted to photograph. Another thing to take into account if you go here is that you cannot take any images if there is a service, you can't use flash and you cant go to any parts where there is currently a private service taking place. To the bottom right of the image, there was a small chapel which had a christening happening and so we couldn't go over to that area of the building.
Here's another image from the morning. Actually, this is the first image that I took. The hardest part of this was finding the very centre on the floor and as you can see from the slight difference between the upper triangles on the very left and right and the lower ones. However I don't think anybody would actually notice this, as most people aren't as picky as me! So what is probably the first thing we do when we walk into a building like this... look up! And I found myself doing exactly that, therefore I decided to take this photograph. With some slight cropping and perspective warping I have got it as close to symmetrical as I think I possibly could.
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