Saint Tatiana's temple

[dgilmour]

Saint Tatiana's temple in Cheboksary:

 

[odklizec]

Nice one Sergey! I personally like these Russian churches. They always remind me some old Russian fairy tales and my childhood

BTW, I'm surprised by the amount of noise in sky? I mean, I would not expect that from 40D at just ISO400?

 

[dgilmour]

It's because image was strengthly processed in ACR. Here's original image:

 

[uKrris]

This is a magnificent photograph - I love it. Thanks for posting .

 

[thelps]

Quite spectacular image. Photographed at a good time of day (night)

 

[Orol]

I like the photo, too. The temple is perfectly lit by the lights.

Sergey, to prevent a degradation of a photograph by processing it outside the camera by some third party software, when as in your case the white balance needs to be correct only, some cameras allow to process the raw directly in them. It is then like shooting directly to JPG, also in sense of the image quality, so no higher noise appears. Try it if possible.

 

[dgilmour]

No, it was not just white balance correction. I've also raised "fill light" value to highlight trees and top of the church - and as result the noise in the dark areas. But thanks for suggestion, I will try to remember it.