Recently in Munich, I had the opportunity to visit the Residence Museum. The oldest room in the residence is the Antiquarium, built between 1568-71. You know you have a lot of antique sculptures when you commission a 66-meter long hall to house them. Might sound like a bit of an over the top extravagance, but Duke Albrecht V did it with style in my opinion. This was a favorite stop of mine on the tour of the museum:
This room was filled with many beautiful things, but what I enjoyed photographing was the play between the light and dark spaces. There was a lot of interesting potential in this room in addition to the beautiful objects. Here is my interpretation of the file above:
I started with a crop that would maintain some of the arches and some of the darker spaces. I brought the shadows up a bit, particularly in the wall detail. I added filters that would increase the warmth and dreamy feel of the light in the room. For me, this edit was a lot of back and forth with the various sliders, until I came up with a combination that I liked.
What do you think of the edit? Can you imagine owning so much art that you would have to build entire rooms to display it? I have a hard time wrapping my head around that idea, I suspect I would loan items like that to museums or something. Feel free to leave a comment below.
Cheers!
Added to Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Silhouettes.
Beautiful xx
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Thank you 🙂
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Interesting place to visit. I can’t imagine having such a space. Opulence at its best, I guess. 🙂
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Yes, it was a really nice space.
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Beautiful shots. Such an air of mystery about them.
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Thanks very much.
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Hi, Amy. What a beautiful shot! Very atmospheric. The silhouette helps to add a sense of magic and mystery to the shot. Your edits really helped to heighten the shot’s impact. Glad you joined us!
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Thank you, this was an interesting place to tour, but a couple of the spaces were just really visually interesting.
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The edit really improved this one Amy. Difficult shooting conditions for sure! Thanks for joining us this week
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Yes, it was difficult, but such an interesting challenge!
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Fantastic.
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Thank you 🙂
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I can not imagine ever needing such a space but what a place to visit. The editing creates a wonderful sense of mystery Amy.
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Yes, you should have seen their portrait gallery 🙂 It was humourous because it was actual family members and then others they just sort of hoped they were related too.
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Love the dramatic, low key effect. The arches trailing into infinity in the first photo adds a lot of depth and the second, cropped image allows the eye to investigate the details. Both are stunning. ❤
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Thank you very much. I think you would have enjoyed this space as much as I did.
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So well edited – a difficult photographic choice – quite magical!
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It was an interesting challenge, thinking about how to shoot in the space.
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That is a lovely shot – very atmospheric!
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Thanks very much.
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Stunning photographs!
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Thank you 🙂 A lot of light and dark, shadows and whatnot. I think this space would have appealed to you.
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Yes absolutely, that is my kind of place! 😄
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Very nice photo!
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Thank you 🙂
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I love the edits in this image Amy, beautifully done 🙂💜
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Thanks very much 🙂
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Oooh. Very nice.
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Thanks, it was an interesting space.
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really nice….
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Thank you 🙂
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Mysterious…!
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Just a fun place to photograph.
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Fantastic image! The lighting is beautiful! Keep up the good work.
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Thanks very much!
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