Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception has always been one of my favorite locations to do High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. I was lucky to be allowed to go up into the upper level where the pipe organ once restored will reside which allowed me to capture the cathedral from high above the floor. Here are the HDR images I did using Nik Software’s HDR Efex Pro and Color Efex Pro 4. The third photo is from the alter area looking to the back and in this image you can see the balcony area I took the other two photos from.

State Capital – Albany, New York

I have lived here in New York State all of my life (55 years) and until last week I have never been inside New York’s Capital building located here in Albany. I spent a few hours shoot images of the assembly chambers and the main staircase, commonly referred to as the “Million Dollar Staircase”. Below are a few of the images for my first visit to the New York State Capital Building.

Eastern States Penn Barber Chair Rework

If you search the Internet for Eastern States Penitentiary (ESP) images you find hundreds of images of the ESP’s barbers chair. I made to trips down to ESP to shoot photographs there back in 2010, here is the two chairs you will find at ESP. The red chair is in the area that you go during normal visitor pass and the other chair is in a remote area only available to groups paying for special access for photo sessions.

These photos I when back and did a complete High Dynamic Range (HDR) rework. The first image I did the HDR work using NIK Software’s HDR Efex Pro. Then using NIK Software Color Efex Pro 3 I applied Tonal Contrast, Glamour Glow and Darken Lighten Center filters. The second photo was the same process but after I applied the three Color Efex Pro 3 filters I then processed image thru NIK Software Silver Efex Pro 2 to produce a B&W image.

Then & Now

Back in 2007 I did a high dynamic range (HDR) inside the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception in Albany NY. This Cathedral is a wonderful large structure that over the last few years has been under going a major restoration/face lift inside. Today I took some time to go back and take more HDR images of the new interior. The first image was from 2007 and remaining three is from today.

From 2007

From 2010

From 2010

From 2010

October 2010 Gallery

I took seven photographers from Schenectady Photographic Society down to Eastern States Penitentiary (ESP) and we had access to cell block 11 and 14, which is normally off limits to the general public. I have just uploaded a gallery of images taken during the trip back to ESP. All the high dynamic range images where processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro software.

http://rjnphoto.com/Gallery/2010images/ESP-Oct2010/