sant stepanoos-church2, a photo from Azarbayjan-e Khavari, West

Photographer's Note

it is 2nd from sant stepanoos collection. st.stepanos church is located at 10 kilometrs west of JOLFA whit the distance of 3 kilometers by the ARAX river near DARRE SHAM regon. in which the deseted DARRE SHAM village has been sityated on it.the name of the church driven from the name of the first martyr of the christian world. the church situated in a tortifiud region,too.opinions about the date of construction some believe that the original building constructed in the begining of the christionity,but TAVERNIE dated it safavid era.

jhm, Vasa, delpeoples, lpi, yeln, aliabazari has marked this note useful

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saigon (6443) 2010-11-15 4:25

bonjour SABER.
oui il faut entretenir le patrimoine du pays.
tres bon travail .
merci SABER.
aldo.

jhm (211736) 2010-11-15 4:41

Hello Saber,

Your subject is very nice, also an excellent angle.
Little bit a difficult image through the strong white backlight, I've tryed a WS.
Good depth and perspective.
Excellent composition, lovely presentation.
Very well done, TFS.

Best regards,
John.

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Silvio1953 (221751) 2010-11-15 7:17

Ciao Saber, difficult backlight, WS of John is useful, great POV on wonderful architecture, splendid composition, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio

Fis2 (170885) 2010-11-15 12:07

Witaj Saber!
Interesting church.
Good POV and composition.
Intertesting dokument.
Best regards
Krzysztof

williewhistler (16606) 2010-11-15 12:11

Hello Saber,whilst the background is washed out and the scaffolding intrusive, there remains the sheer beauty of this wonderful church,a most interesting post.
Best regards Les.

Vasa (515) 2010-11-15 13:45

Nice witness from Jolfa. The same subject from the other angle. Many thanks Saber, warm regards,

Branko

AKITA (15125) 2010-11-15 20:53

dear Saber,
wow,
the church building is wonderful and artistic (though it is now repairing),
especially the roof of tower looks precious diamond jewelry,
and brown checkered patterns of the wall is beautiful so much too,
old stones and repaired relatively new stones are well combined to make tasteful ambience,
thank you for your excellent shot,
Akihisa

Graal (103040) 2010-11-16 0:17

Hi Saber,
an interesting view of church. Good shot from fine POV. Well informations also.
Have a nice day.
Aleksander

Nicou (193806) 2010-11-16 0:50

Hello,

Tr鑚 belle compo et image, le fond est un peu trop 馗laire, mais donne un bel effet, avec les personnage qui donne l'馗helle, ce rendu de carr駸 sur la facade, splendide.

Bravo et amiti�

Nicou

delpeoples (60342) 2010-11-16 2:36

Hi Saber, what a beautiful church, you achieved excellenbt definition and contrast with your subject in these difficult light conditions. The over-exposure is a problem, it is something I have also struggled with. There are several things you can try when shooting in these conditions:

1. Use a filter - either neutral density or grey graduated filter to even out the sky; or
2. Use Spot metering, rather than Average metering; and/or
3. Take 2 shots (using a tripod), firstly metering on the darker foreground and then secondly metering on the lighter background. In post-processing merging the two images.

TFS and I wish you a beautiful day
Lisa

diomed (13926) 2010-11-16 7:07

Hi Saber,
very nice and interesting architecture. Maybe the mountain in the background would need of small correction beacause overexposed.
Nice evening
Antonio

wolf38 (30) 2010-11-16 7:22

Hi Saber. Another photo of your interesting Iran series. Of cultural monuments there are always renovations. Informative text. Prima. Regards, wolfgang.

lpi (4857) 2010-11-17 1:00

Salut Saber!
Excellente prise de vue sur cette belle 馮lise.
Amicalement,
lpi

MGHPARSI (1053) 2010-11-21 8:51

Hi,
This is very beautiful and historical places.
Good luck

MGH

yeln (11516) 2010-11-26 21:27

hi Saber
obnova kulturnih spomenikov je nujna za ohranjanje tradicije in kulture za naslednje rodove. TFS!
lep dan, vojko

erdna (5713) 2010-11-27 10:30

I like the architectural character of this photo and your poit of view, unfortunately it is way over exposed. The kinf of photo that also gets tricky when you try to process more and bring out details.

Andre'

windosil (1158) 2010-11-28 3:17

Hi, Saber.
This is an interesting series about this dramatically situated building. Your photos show well the detail of the carving and the contrast between the pink sandstone of the church and the darker stones of the surrounding structures.
I have tried a WS to reduce the overexposure of the mountains.

Many thanks for your comments about my photo, Houses by the sea.
Best wishes from a cold, windy, snow-covered Dunbar,
Winifred

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polpo56 (15146) 2010-11-30 23:59

Hi Saber,
it wasn't easy to manage this strong light... but the image is very interesting.
TFS

Ciao

Ludo

jemaflor (147248) 2010-12-04 9:00

Hi Saber,
good pov on this church, interesting architecture but the background is overexposed ...

aliabazari (22289) 2015-01-14 19:58

Hi Saber's
Good view of St. Stepanous. Framing angle and well done.