Emil9497 Photography & Art
Monastery of Stavronikita ... HDR
It may be the smaller monastery of Mount Athos but it is deffinitely the one with the most elegant and unique architecture ... It must have been built towards the end of the 9th century AD ... It is widely known due to the fact that its central church is icon painted by one of the best icon painters ever Theofanis from Crete, who lived at the early 16th century ... Theofanis, who was a monk, is the icon painter that managed to create a whole new school of icon painting style, a school known nowadays as the Cretan School of Hagiography ... Contemporary Hagiographers strive to emulate Theofanis' style but it proves to be an extremely difficult task ... The Saints are reresented thin, dark skinned, dressed with dark coloured clothes, delineated by immaterial characteristics ... At the same time just by looking at such an icon one easily comes face to face with the inner holliness of the character represented ...
EXIF: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZX1 with LEICA lens, ISO 80, f 4,3, focal length 7,2 mm, white balance adjusted to fine weather, HDR made by one original shot with shutter speeds 1/400 s and EV value biased to -1,33 stops, accurately conveying the scene's exact lighting conditions to the viewer (the sun was scorching and I didn't want any part of the synthesis to be overexposed so I pushed the EV value to the dark side), flash did not fire ...
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Monastery of Stavronikita ... HDR
It may be the smaller monastery of Mount Athos but it is deffinitely the one with the most elegant and unique architecture ... It must have been built towards the end of the 9th century AD ... It is widely known due to the fact that its central church is icon painted by one of the best icon painters ever Theofanis from Crete, who lived at the early 16th century ... Theofanis, who was a monk, is the icon painter that managed to create a whole new school of icon painting style, a school known nowadays as the Cretan School of Hagiography ... Contemporary Hagiographers strive to emulate Theofanis' style but it proves to be an extremely difficult task ... The Saints are reresented thin, dark skinned, dressed with dark coloured clothes, delineated by immaterial characteristics ... At the same time just by looking at such an icon one easily comes face to face with the inner holliness of the character represented ...
EXIF: Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZX1 with LEICA lens, ISO 80, f 4,3, focal length 7,2 mm, white balance adjusted to fine weather, HDR made by one original shot with shutter speeds 1/400 s and EV value biased to -1,33 stops, accurately conveying the scene's exact lighting conditions to the viewer (the sun was scorching and I didn't want any part of the synthesis to be overexposed so I pushed the EV value to the dark side), flash did not fire ...
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