Lincoln Cathedral #1

In these kind of light conditions flat prints is all you can expect. Plenty of detail however and not much divergence in the two towers. In fact, unless I had seen your thread on this issue I don't think I'd have been looking for divergence and would not have seen any

Yes you can see the North-West tower started to lean as it was being built. They tried to straighten it in the upper sections. The lean is much more obvious in some of the negatives awaiting printing. This print is a touch light. An extra 1/4-1/3 stop brings extra detail to the cathedral but then it is too dingy and would need some dodging elsewhere as well. The foreground building on the left is quite obtrusive -this is actually a landscape orientation negative so to reduce the distraction and to emphasise the height of the cathedral I printed it in portrait orientation. It took a lot of playing around with contrast and exposure to get this print looking slightly less dreary. Usually I have an RH designs analyser to help me but it has developed a fault so I am back to basics with test strips. Slower, but reassuring I do actually remember how to make a print without a gizmo.

At Ely cathedral the North-West tower and central tower collapsed.

I really like your result - pleasing composition (not least because of the left building in the foreground !) - lots of details and the noticeable mood of a dankish and foggy day.
Thank you for sharing, Stephen !

Thank you MacFred. The building on the right is a pub called the “Magna Carta”. I deliberately cropped to keep the sign in the picture because Lincoln has one of the original copies of Magna Carta. I also got a bit tipsy in there on St Patrick’s Night.

I agree with MacFred, very nice composition, the height and building on the left adds great depth and context. I can tell the air was full of moisture, and I think it adds to the mood.
I got a bit of a chuckle out of this.. I thought this was the one you were going to correct perspective by tilting your easel, and was thinking maybe you went a little too far, and then I read your comment about the lean in the tower. Nicely done.

Thanks Ned. Yes the building on the left is ok in this composition. In landscape it competed with the cathedral too much at least I thought it did in a 10”x8” but actually it seems fine in landscape printed at 12”x9.5”

Ah, so the lean is real and so no point in trying to correct it Reminds me of a Roger Hicks story that he told in an article or book. He and his wife has a colour negative of a white cat called Yeti who lived in the U.S. Try as he might he could not get rid of a very slight colour cast of pink in the cat without adversely affecting other colours. When they went to the U.S. and saw the cat again they realised on close examination that it had a very faint pinkish tinge to its fur .

Yes that lean is real for sure! Wide angle effects are another thing entirely but this isn’t a WA

And now they say it will be -10 and snowing for Easter.