St. Mary the Virgin Church, Seaham

[owenmorris]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3531/3192606076_14bf76e988_o.jpg

[coffee]

What a dramatic photo Owen. I really like this. The composition is great, and well balanced. Is that an antenna post on the roof? Cloning that out might improve it. This would be a great HDR!

[owenmorris]

What a dramatic photo Owen. I really like this. The composition is great, and well balanced. Is that an antenna post on the roof? Cloning that out might improve it. This would be a great HDR!

Thankss Joseph, this one I have quickly cloned out antenna and its 3 exposure -1 0 +1.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3498/3191972547_ef6c10e3ef_o.jpg

[skeuos]

You've done a decent job processing this - how many exposures? Personally, I'm not a fan of the hypersaturated HDR (which you come close to, but not quite all the way there), but that's a matter of taste. One thing you do need to watch out for in HDR, though, is maintaining legitimate highlights and shadows. This is still a bit too compressed, as evidenced by the yellow/grey clouds - I'd let those go a bit more toward the edge of the range. If they were bright in the original, let them be bright here. The other thing I'd suggest is burning some of the shadows back in - the left side of the church, the left side of the tombstones could take a little burning and send them further into the shadows. Not too much, since you don't want to lose the detail that HDR recovered, but enough to remind the eye that there are shadows in the shot.

I do enjoy the comp; the church standing in the graveyard against a dynamic sky is very striking.

steve

edit - looks like we posted at the same time, so disregard the exposure question. The sky is better in the second version, but I'd still burn a tad, and crop up half an inch to remove the dark right corner. It's looking good!

[owenmorris]

Thanks Steve all c&c appreciated.