Posted by MadScientist (Düsseldorf, Germany) on 13 April 2008 in Art & Design and Portfolio.
Walking through Cologne Cathedral, you'll notice beautiful stained-glass windows on the north side. This is one of them, a fine exemplar of Cologne school of painters from 1507. The upper part depicts the Nativity, below this are four saints who are related to Cologne (George, Mauritius, Gereon, and Albinus), and at the bottom Agrippus, the founder of Cologne and Marsilius, a fabled hero of Cologne's early history, surrounding two helmet plates of the city of Cologne.
This is an excellent picture of a glass window. Well done MadScientist!
13 Apr 2008 5:20am
@akarui: I finally dared to use Gimp's perspective correction! :-)
Ich bin von diesen Fenstern immer wieder aufs Neue fasziniert!
13 Apr 2008 9:46am
@Michael: Ja, die sind toll. Wenn das Licht richtig ist, scheinen sie richtig zu funkeln. Muß nächstes mal die wirklich alten Fenster im Chor ablichten.
Another great peace of art and you have take a good shot of it
13 Apr 2008 4:20pm
@Evelyne Dubos: Thank you so much, Evelyne! Every time I'm in Cologne I try to cast a glance on the cathedral and its magnificent windows.
Its amazing how vibrant the colours are still.
13 Apr 2008 4:58pm
@JoeB: The Cologne Cathedral is a permanent construction site, and a lot of efforts go into restauration. BTW, almost all (95%) windows of the Kölner Dom are original art!
You've done really well with this as I know from personal experience how hard these shots of stained glass windows are!
13 Apr 2008 5:47pm
@Ian Bramham: If you visit a church on a sunny day and the light's right, getting a good photo isn't that difficult (apart from the pushing and shoving of the other visitors). The problem is that all these windows are several meters above the ground, and the result is a distorted capture. So I had to do some post processing here: correct the perspective (I finally got this! Thanks, Gimp!), brighten up the darker, tone down the brighter parts, then carefully sharpen blurry parts. But I think it's worth the effort.
That's a magnificent window.
14 Apr 2008 9:53am
@Twelvebit: And this cathedral has lots of them! :-)
Beautiful icons!
15 Apr 2008 2:42pm
@Porcsin: To be continued...
WOW... wonderful!
15 Apr 2008 3:28pm
@Brites: There's more to come!
Very cool. Great contrast. Great colors.
15 Apr 2008 7:33pm
@Suze: Thanks, Suze! That's not the last one, so stay tuned :)
This is.......AMAZING!!!!! I've seen quite a number of stained glass windows photos, but rarely of such quality!
20 Apr 2008 10:05am
@Japanalia: This needed quite some post processing (perspective correction, sharpening the details, toning down some overexposed areas, brighten up others) - things you have to do when you don't have first class equipment ;-) (Note to myself: save money for a tilt-shift lens) Since I wished to make photographs of the interiors of churches I wanted to capture these fabulous windows as well. It makes me very happy to share my pictures and to see that you enjoy them!
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