Gary Walter, QPSA
December 2025 - Church of Our Savior Copenhagen
About the Image(s)
Title: Church of Our Savior Copenhagen
Equipment Used: Canon EOS R6mk2 RF16-35 f/2.8L IS USM at 16mm
Camera Settings: Aperture Priority, ISO 400, 1/4000 sec, f/4.5, 0 EV, pattern metering
Lighting Conditions: Mid-afternoon, partly cloudy skies, around 2:15 PM local time
Where and When: Copenhagen Denmark March 19, 2025.
This image was taken on a 2-day stop over in Copenhagen following a Viking Ocean Cruise to Norway.
Post-Processing: In Lightroom: enabled lens profile, remove chromatic aberration, straightened & cropped using LR Transform tool, adjusted blacks, whites, shadows, highlights; then adjusted clarity, dehaze and vibrance. No editing in photoshop on this image.
3 comments posted
I have no particular critique of this lovely photo but wondering if there was a particular reason you chose to shoot fast and wide open rather than using more of a mid-range setting like f/8 1/500. I don't see any CA in the picture but a wider setting makes it more likely, hence my question about the setting choice. Posted: 12/13/2025 17:22:49
The composition is neat and steady. I took the street photo at around 2:00 pm, with some contrast between light and shadow. It might be better to wait another 2 hours. The speed and aperture combination may have been captured because I didn't have time to adjust them. I guessed it, haha. Posted: 12/13/2025 20:40:30
I think this setup works well too. f/4.5 isn't really a wide aperture-it's pretty average, and the final result still looks great. I'm a bit confused, though: when using aperture priority mode and keeping ISO at 400, why didn't the camera lengthen the exposure time to lower the ISO? Posted: 12/18/2025 09:10:13