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Sky Over St. Paul's
Sky Over St. Paul's
W.R.Miller


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Sacred Places (Classic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
Location: St. Paul's Church / Clear Spring, MD - USA
Date: Nov 9, 2003
Aperture: 6.3
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/100s
Galleries: Architecture
Date Uploaded: Nov 9, 2003

 De-saturated all colors but Blue. This was a last minute shot of a church near my home just so I could enter the Sacred Places Challenge. I don't expect to do all that well but we will see. :-)

Statistics
Place: 85 out of 109
Avg (all users): 4.9643
Avg (commenters): 5.6667
Avg (participants): 4.8889
Avg (non-participants): 5.0441
Views since voting: 824
Votes: 140
Comments: 4
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 11/19/2003 04:09:02 PM
[Critique Club]

By de-emphasising the church you have effectively concentrated attention on the sky, which on its on isn't interesting. I think that you would need to add more 'punch' to the church to make this one work. In general, selective desaturation is used to emphasise the most important part of the photo, but you've gone the other way here. If there was interesting cloud cover it might have worked better.

I'm undecided about correcting the perspective shift in this one. In some ways it suits the shot given your composition. A closer, more exaggerated view of of the church (still looking up) would have been even more dramatic, and vertical distortion would have added extra impact.

Finally, you chose the wrong time of day for this one - the church is in shadow which de-emphasises it even more. You have some elements of a powerful image here - maybe some more post-processing to emphasise the church would work wonders.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/13/2003 11:11:45 PM
What a pretty church and teh shadows are beautiful! But the negative space at the top it just a bit much. A tighter crop on the top, about 1/2 the sky gone would have really made this shot pop for me. The colors of the church, are those natural or did you play with it a bit in PS? They are very interesting. I started with a 4 on this shot but am bumping it to a 6
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 11/10/2003 09:37:19 PM
Almost seems a little Magritte. It is a nice blue sky.
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 11/10/2003 07:03:22 AM
Nice combination of color and black and white, but too much blank blue sky for my taste.
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