Repton Church

SteveT
Posted 18/12/2009 - 15:01 Link
Itook this shot last weekend in a short lived bit of sunshine before the cloud obscured the sun. The sun was very low and there was a bit too little light in the foreground so I have adjusted 3 versions, one for the foreground, one for the church and one for the sky and then erased and merged them.
Do you think I have gone too far?
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I then messed about with a black and white conversion of which there were many results, this is one of them.

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thoughton
Posted 18/12/2009 - 15:21 Link
I think you've done a great job merging the three exposures! The light looks great.

Compositionally I'm not so keen on the tree to the left. Have you considered cropping the left side up to the left-most headstone, and then cloning out the remaining bits of tree?

Nice BW conversion too. Quite a prominent halo around the church but they are hard to avoid. The tree on the right looks incredible in BW!
Tim
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SteveT
Posted 18/12/2009 - 15:31 Link
Thank you

I see what you mean about the left hand tree, I have cropped a bit and cloned a bit out (very quickly) to try and keep the image not too square.

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thoughton
Posted 18/12/2009 - 16:26 Link
That looks better to me! The tree was just too big and black and ominous
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SteveT
Posted 18/12/2009 - 16:47 Link
Thanks
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doingthebobs
Posted 18/12/2009 - 20:59 Link
I think the merging of the three exposures is great. Not sure if the tree removal makes it any better though, I think both work.

Not so sure of the mono, bit too dramatic for me when using this particular view. Could be great in a close up of the tower though, looking up to those clouds with the tower bending back!

The leaning back of the tower is a bit drastic though in this shot. I always find it difficult to resist trying to get all the hight in the frame.
Bob

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