Christmas Eve candlelight service (large)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

[Blue_In_AK]

1. That's a nice shot, Jump.

Were you singing in the choir?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. thank you...sort of hanging off the balcony

Lutherans have the choir behind the altar, up front

[Blue_In_AK]

3. At the Methodist church I used to attend

sometimes the choir would sing from the balcony, that's why I asked.

[Mira]

4. having a helluva time seeing the whole thing - BUT

once accomplished it takes me way back to places I only remember in my dreams.
(Preacher's Kid here - gave up church because of overexposure)

The photo is sensitively presenting the event at hand
(that's my new way to say "stunning")
and allows me to be right in there as if I did not purposely stay home.

it's a photo to make me hold my breath in admiration of the driver of the camera.

[ManiacJoe]

5. Did you do any noise reduction

during the post processing, or is the Nikon D700 living up to expectations?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. no noise reduction, just the usual

stuff in lightroom with a little tweakage, pretty much right out of the camera

and yes, the d700 is pronominal... my latest in a long line of "fall in love with" cameras

[superconnected]

7. Great shot! I feel like I'm there.

[mth44sc]

8. This might very well be

as good a shot as I've seen here since I been hanging around in these parts.

No way I'd ever be in such a picture - and yet it is so compelling it really draws me in.

I think that speaks to its power!