Chappel in a shopping centre

[busseynova]

This is a project my employers are doing to re-expose a 17th C. chapel which is currently swamped by 20th C. building withing the ground of a 19th C. Department store! We plan to remove the more facade and reveal the chapel again, incorporating a hotel entrance, crazy golf place, and a hip time-out style market within the chapel. I needed to show the recognisable facade on the street, but tried to pull attention down to the chapel. It's quite long so I foreshortened a fair bit (50-60mm lens from memory). Unfortunately the client wanted to shroud the chapel in a glass facade, which is a bit distracting.

Your criticism is welcome as I'm the only Visualiser here, so it's hard to get proper constructive criticism (they all just think it looks great )

about a week from start to finish.

[fixeighted]

Great image - I like it very much. It has a very painterly feel to it, with very good people integration.
Everything about it looks very well balanced to me

[^Lele^]

I love it.
If i was to move one critique only was that i find quite hard to read the glass in front of the church, which is probably not helped by what reflects into it (f.e. the diner's sign is distracting).
Other than that, i dig how you chose to lit, it and the people, and your shader work.

[busseynova]

Thanks for your kind comments. Yeah the glass was a last minute addition from the client and I struggled to nail it, fine balance between showing it up with reflections and hiding the chapel frontage. If I'd had it my way it wouldn't be there at all (and hopefully won't if it gets built!)

[^Lele^]

Thanks for your kind comments. Yeah the glass was a last minute addition from the client and I struggled to nail it, fine balance between showing it up with reflections and hiding the chapel frontage. If I'd had it my way it wouldn't be there at all (and hopefully won't if it gets built!)

I guessed as much: the rest was just too well done for you to slap the glass over the facade at this shallow viewing angle.
And yeah, i could tell you had some sweating to do there to balance it out, the reflections aren't exactly what i'd have expected from a thick glass panel.