These shots were all taken inside the Great Hall in St Georges Hall. Its stunning in there, it really is. Just as the outside is amazing so is the inside. The floor has around 30,000 tiles in total. The lighting wasn’t exactly great, well it was ok but not great. Most of the images turned out too warm at the top and too odd at the bottom. So the colours change slightly from image to image as I’ve tried to correct the white balance in each. It was made worse after running them through Photomatix. Still, I feel I got some acceptable results of something I might never see again. The floor is only open till Sunday and then it will be covered up again. Its well worth a visit.

The Minton Floor and inside St Georges Hall | Posted at 12pm on 26/04/07 | Filed Under: Architecture, Canon-30D, HDR, Liverpool |

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  1. laetitia 26.04.07 / 1pm

    I’ve been to England quite a few times but never to Liverpool. I’ve been meaning to visit, the reason mainly being as I love reading books by Catherine Cookson and now your photos has made me certain I want to be there someday, soon I hope.

  2. Adam 26.04.07 / 7pm

    It looks like an amazing building - well captured! Why is the floor covered up for most of the time?

  3. ST8 27.04.07 / 7pm

    Pete the first two are absolutly stunning! Nice work mate

  4. Ronnie 29.04.07 / 10pm

    Adam - the floor is covered up most of the time precisely because it is so ornate. The outside has worn away over time where people have walked; the centre (when unveiled) looks like new still.

    I understand just what a nightmare that mixed lighting is! I took some pictures there myself this week, and have done so in the past when the floor was previously shown. Electric light mixed with daylight streaming in makes for a nightmare!

  5. Jason 04.05.07 / 12am

    That first one really rocks. This is an extremely good use of HDR - They are very high impact, yet truly believable. Colors seem OK to me by the way. Great work.

  6. John 24.09.07 / 11am

    How many exposure shots did you take for each picture in order to produce the indoor HDR effect. Can you do it with 3 or do you have to take more than that because it is indoors. Thanks.

  7. Vanilla Days : Inside St Georges Hall with the minton floor 21.02.09 / 11pm

    [...] So nearly 2 years after shooting this its re-opened and I popped by to see if taking a tripod and a D700 made a difference. The picture is, imho, much better. Whether thats down to the tripod allowing for lower ISO, having a better camera or being a more experienced photographer I don’t know.

Its so tough to shoot in here, for me the complete perfections. There are two different colour temperatures lighting the place. The HDR processing really brought this out in areas. Some spots were very over saturated so I added a contrasting colour tone to fix it.

I think shooting 7 exposures bracketed 1 stop apart is also helping in some respects. Maybe… Its hard to really say. You can see the original attempts here. [...]

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