Sunset at Thanner Bavi beach taken using Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L USM Lens on Canon EOS 5D mark II as HDR.

As it is IPL 2 season I am running a hat-trick here with 3 HDR’s in a row. Here is the 3rd and the final part of St. Aloysius Chapel. You can check the HDR’s here. Here I concentrated on the alter of the chapel and wanted the stained glass panels to come out. The interior of the chapel was pretty dark and the stained glass were too bright. HDR was the only way to get proper exposure correctly. I used Photomatix pro thsi time but did not go to the grungy effect that you see in St. Aloysius Chapel HDR 2.

If you love HDR then you must visit this great collection at Smashing Magazine’s 35 extremely beautiful and perfectly executed HDR-pictures. I thank my close friend Dr. Jerry Varghese for pointing out this beautiful collection.

This is the Grungy effect many like HDR for. I have used Photomatix pro with tone mapping to get this result. You can check my earlier effect using Photoshop here

For this HDR image of St. Aloysius Chapel I used 3 shots taken at 2 stop bracketing and used Photoshop to do the HDR.

St. Aloysius Chapel, or the chapel of St. Aloysius College, is a Christian chapel in Mangalore in the state of Karnataka in southwest India. The St Aloysius Chapel in Mangalore was built by the Italian Jesuit Antonio Moscheni in 1884, during the Mangalore Mission in 1878. The Italian Jesuits played an important role in education, health, and social welfare of the Mangalorean Catholic community and built the St. Aloysius College in 1880, St Aloysius Chapel in 1884, and many other institutions and churches. St. Aloysius College Chapel is an architectural marvel that could stand comparison with the chapels of Rome. What makes this chapel unique compared to the other chapels in the country is the beautiful paintings that virtually cover every inch of the walls. Bro. Moscheni from Italy is the creator of such a master piece. One portion of the chapel paintings depicts the life of Aloysius Gonzaga to whom Aloysius College and chapel are dedicated. Saint Aloysius gave his life in the service of others.

Edit: I have updated the image which was bit too bright, with an which is now corrected.