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My husband and I were driving down to the White Mountains in NH when we came across this church on a quiet road. We had to stop and take a few shots it was so impressive! It was a bit difficult to not get a washed out sky as it was a very cloudy day. My goal was to capture and edit the church in a way that would give the viewer a mood for that era and style of architecture. I was working with a 24-105mm f/4L lens on a Canon 60D. I was wondering what anyone has to say in how I could have improved this shot or in the editing.
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It seems to me that you captured the mood you were after fairly well. I would work on eliminating the “halo” effect around the top of the building. Also I think it would be nice if the window at the right edge of the frame wasn’t cut off.
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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@Dan Cope, Thanks! I guess the halo-ing was from a bit too much sharpening. I didn’t notice the window at the time, but thanks for pointing that out. Here’s one where I got a bit more of the window, and also a similar one where I cropped out the whole thing. Is the cropped one too tight maybe? That was as wide as I was able to go.
@ James Staddon, you’re right, bracketing could have been helpful to that, I didn’t think of it at the time. Thanks. Can’t remember what era the architecture is from, there is a sign in front of the church indicating all that.
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Yes, I really like 9448-2. I think being able to see the entire window is much better. I also like the lighting and coloration better. I do think the cropped version is a little too tight. I know how you feel about not being able to go any wider. I’ve been shooting a lot with a 12-24mm lens, and even at 12mm I still sometimes find myself wishing I could go a little wider! The problem is that lens distortion starts becoming an issue, especially with buildings.
Are you using Photoshop? If so, here’s a link that might be helpful with the halo problem http://lorrifreedman.com/correcting-halo-in-hdr/
Thanks @ James Staddon
Thanks for the link @Dan Cope, that would be helpful if ever I start doing photoshop. We have Elements but almost never use it. (maybe we should..) This is not technically hdr but perhaps a kind of pseudo-hdr through agressive tone curves.
I’ve given it a shot in PSE; here is a first try 😛Attachments:
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