"Vertical Church" Series, Italy...

I am continuing with my "Vertical Church" Series with my recent travels to Italy, especially Rome.
My Italy trip consisted of Milan, Venice, Trieste and Rome. With so many churches/cathedrals to photograph, it took up many hours of my trip to search and find them but well worth the time and efforts. 
Here is a link to my "Vertical Churches of Italy". 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157645253177930/

Finally finished posting my Photos on Flickr from Mexico City, Easter Island and Istanbul...

Having done a tremendous amount of traveling over the past couple of months I finally found the time to post my Photos on www.Flickr.com. 
As many of you know, if you take a 1,000 photos at least each trip it takes some time to fix and get your photos done for others to look at. 

Here are the last 3 trips...

Mexico City...4 Sets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157631686220138/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157631724026498/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157631854039323/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157631975980407/

Easter Island...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157631943662852/

Istanbul...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157632129262307/

A new way to see NY Churches...

     Since using my Nikon D800 I have been experimenting more and more. Recently I was playing around with Panorama's from some of my older photos and was personally impressed with some of the results. Inspired by those photos I decided to go out and try something different. 
    Traveling as much as I do I am always blown away by the world's religious buildings, especially the intricate interior details. With that being said in New York we have some pretty amazing hidden treasures of churches. Brooklyn has a tremendous amount that I need to go shoot but I started with some Manhattan churches first. 
     So far I have had some trouble getting churches to shoot. 5 of them were closed, 2 under construction and 1 I was not allowed to shoot with a tripod. The ones I did shoot, 5 so far are posted at my Flickr account attached. 
The way I shot them was this: Be in the middle aisle, shoot from the pew to the back in a circle to get the ceiling in full. Camera is on my tripod and get to shoot straight up the ceiling and them change the direction of the camera to keep a smooth transition. I then use Lightroom, Lens Correction then to Photoshop to use their stitching mode which is Photomerge. Play around with the Puppet Warp because when shooting with a 14mm Nikon lens you get some warping when shooting ceilings.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157630970106740/

The Church of Xavier St. Francis

The Most Holy Redeemer Church 

Did all of my classes for Photoshop and Lightroom pay off? YOU DECIDE...

I have been taking some free classes at B&H Photo, watching tons of videos on Youtube, reading other Photographer's Blogs and Lynda.com. With all of this new information on how to fix my photos even better than before I would like some FEEDBACK FROM MY AUDIENCE....Please.

LEAVE ANY FEEDBACK ON ANY OF MY PHOTOS HERE OR AT FLICKR....

Below is a link to some photos from my thousands and thousands of travel photos that I have taken over the years and started to Redo some of them a little at a time. I am amazed at how many photos I actually have taken. My trip to Morocco had almost 2,200 and my trip to India a few years ago had almost 3,500-that is just 2 trips. I am posting the photos on Flickr right now and will decide how to get them to my site later on at www.richardsilverphoto.com

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157630254509862/

Corpus Christi, Cuzco Peru

Ayre Hotel, Oviedo, Spain (Santiago Calatrava)

Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Finished taking a Lighting course at ICP in New York...

For about 8 weeks I have been taking an interior lighting course at ICP. The class was learning about Strobe and Tungsten lighting and showed us how to use both types of lights for interior real estate photography. I was teaching myself a better way to shoot interiors using Speedlites, Nikon, and found the class to give me lots of insight on proper lighting procedures.

I am attaching a few of my finished images. I had the opportunity to take photos for a client, Barbara from "A Proper Place" and James from "Sold with Style". Two beautiful apartments, samples below with a flickr page link attached.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rjsnyc/sets/72157629988563942/