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Well… clean your glasses! Ha! Just kidding, of course 🙂 I lightened it up a bit and added some sharpening.
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Maybe it would have been good if you could have took this picture with a wider angle to have a complete tree on the left of the picture, because there are some branches that are out of the frame.
The second one is definitely better IMO. Sharper and brighter, kinda like looking through a polarizer. 🙂
Those gravestones are interesting. They caught and held my attention, which could be interpreted as distracting… It would be interesting to see what it would look like if you had stepped back a few yards, or used a wider angle as @Mr-Quebec suggested.
I kind of liked having the gravestones included. Backing up much would have included the road in front of the church which I was trying to keep out of the picture. Would a wider angle leave too much empty blue sky on the upper right side of the picture?
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I love the church and it’s setting! The sky is a lovely shade of blue too. 🙂 The image is nice and clear really and the focus seems to be right on when you zoom up. This is coming form one who is not extremely skilled in the art of landscape or architecture photography but It feels as if you need to straighten the image a bit (it seems to be going down hill), add a bit of contrast, and green+blue saturation! Perhaps a wider angle would have been nice but I don’t feel it’s completely necessary in this image. Just some thoughts! 🙂
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Yes, I agree that the gravestones are interesting, I wouldn’t recommend removing them.
I didn’t think about all the empty sky that you would get with a wider angle, maybe it’s just as well that you didn’t! Although the clouds do help to lend some texture to an otherwise boring sky.
I straightened it a bit, although there does seem to be a slight natural slope to the ground there. I also added some contrast and green & blue saturation. I’m sure it would be a better setting at another time of year with greener grass and some foliage!
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Oh, just noticed the lovely shadow on the church from the tree branches! That adds another lovely element to the photo. 🙂 I see what your saying with the natural slope of the ground! I guess what I am seeing is the stair entry and tree are such focal points that my eye is thrown a bit when they aren’t maintaining a nice line. I would recommend making the steps and base of the tree as horizontal and without a slope as possible. I took a screen shot in lightroom which will hopefully explain what I am thinking of! 🙂
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Yes, I see what you mean. When I first straightened it, I did exactly what you’re saying, but I thought it made the overall appearance of the church to be leaning too much to the left. The thing I notice is that with the low camera angle, the right angles of the architecture are distorted such that it is hard to say which lines should be exactly vertical or horizontal. The grid lines in Lightroom indicate that even the individual steps are slightly varied in their angle as seen in the photo. My thinking was that in order to make the photo as straight as possible, I would need to find a vertical line right at the very center. The one vertical line nearest the center of the photo is the right side of the door frame, so I straightened according to that line, making it exactly vertical – or almost exactly 🙂 I went ahead and uploaded an image straightened as you suggested to show what it looks like outside of Lightroom. If you focus on the steps, they do look good like this. But… after all, I live in West Virginia where nothing is straight, so I’m quite used to going up and down crooked steps HAHA!
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I don’t know if you can go back and re-shoot this but it would be nice to see the following:
Shoot vertical down low all the way to the right where a gravestone is your main subject with the church and the tree fully in frame on the left side of the image in the background. Shoot it with softer light either in the morning or evening or on a cloudy day. This might also look good in B&W if you use a gravestone as the main subject. This might create a somber mood with the low angle, bare tree, gravestone, and soft lighting.
What are your lens and camera settings?
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Ah, yes! Maybe I can shoot it in the moonlight with my wife posing as a ghost LOL! Seriously, I like your ideas. Unfortunately, the location is about a 3 hour drive from where I live. I was visiting my parents for Christmas and we were driving past this church and I said I wanted to get a picture. So, there I was trying to hurry and get some shots while the family yelled at me from the vehicle to hurry it up and quit wasting their valuable time! LOL! Not really, but they might have been THINKING that! Anyhow, I would like to go back when I have more time. This shot was taken about half hour before sunset. My lens was at 18mm. Aperture was f/20 and shutter speed 1/640. ISO was 800 which I should have lowered, but in my haste I failed to do so.
LOL Rachel. With the oil and gas boom that’s going on, we actually see a lot of your fellow Texans here in WV. I guess they feel at home!
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Love the intense light and bold sky. Fits the subject and position well.
I would have tried a shot straight on. Not with the church centered, but with the church and tree side by side filling the frame. And as @timtam mentioned, excluded the grave yard completely or included it in some deliberate way.
Glad you stopped to take a shot!
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