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  2. Star-painted ceiling - Wikipedia

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    The vaults of the upper-chapel feature gold painted stars on a dark blue background. [7] The earliest known instance of a star-painted vault related to Christianity is a baptistery at the city of Dura-Europos which is dated approximately 300 AD. The stars in the baptistery were painted white, painted over a blue background, and featured eight ...

  3. Architectural photography - Wikipedia

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    Example of an exterior architectural photograph. Exterior architectural photography usually takes advantage of available light by day, or at night it uses ambient light from adjacent street lights, landscape lights, exterior building lights, moonlight and even twilight present in the sky in all but the darkest situations.

  4. Skyline - Wikipedia

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    Skyline of Lower Manhattan in 2021. The term "Skyline" was first used for New York City in 1896. A skyline is the outline or shape viewed near the horizon.It can be created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a rural setting, or in nature that is formed where the sky meets buildings or the land.

  5. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. [10]: 3:37 [24] They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.

  6. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Made from seven 180 second images combined and processed in Photoshop with a noise reduction plugin. Both digital camera images and scanned film images are usually adjusted in image processing software to improve the image in some way. Images can be brightened and manipulated in a computer to adjust color and increase the contrast.

  7. Skylight - Wikipedia

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    Solar architecture means designing buildings to use the sun's heat and light to maximum advantage and minimum disadvantage, especially in the sense of harnessing solar power. Skylights are widely used in designing daylighting for residential, public, and commercial buildings.

  8. Architectural drawing - Wikipedia

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    An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...

  9. Fisheye lens - Wikipedia

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    On a crop camera with APS-C/H size sensors, it only yields a cropped circular and full-frame image. A zoom lock is included which avoids leaving the focal length range of full coverage on crop sensor cameras. Nikon AF-S Fisheye Nikkor 8–15 mm f /3.5–4.5 E ED – designed for full-frame and FX cameras, this lens behaves identically to the Canon.