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You certainly got the mood thing, @nasa! I feel like I’ve stepped into a movie about John Wycliffe or Maewyn Succat. Or is St. Patrick too early for that style of architecture? 🙂
The vibrant green grass makes me think of Ireland. And I love the heavy vignette in the bottom of the picture complementing the heavy clouds in the sky.
To get more detail in the sky, it’s real easy to merge multiple exposures in Lightroom CC. And it’s easy to take multiple exposures too, even if you don’t want to use a tripod. If I’m hand holding a shot, I use AEB, or automatic exposure bracketing, on my Canon which I’m sure is on your camera too. That way, I can press the button and hold it until the three shots are taken, and all three of them will be fairly perfectly aligned.
I bracket three pictures, usually + and – 2 stops on either side.
Here’s an article on it with the 60D: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-adjust-automatic-exposure-bracketing-on-a-c.html
If I have more time and a tripod, I will bracket manually, but if I’m in a hurry, I’ll use AEB.
And one last thought: if I was editing this shot, I’d take the Brush Tool in LR and remove the brown edges in the clouds. It might make the clouds look better. And while I have the brush out, I might paint in the vignette on the bottom two corners, so that I could let up on the vignette in the sky.
Thanks for posting! And LMK where the GPS coordinates are. 🙂 I want to go shoot that church now!
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