C&C - Duke University Chapel - Sunrise

[fjrabon]

DSC_0023 by franklinrabon, on Flickr

Nikon D3100 35mm f/8 ISO 1600 (just jumped out of my car and snapped it, so I had to jack the ISO a bit to get a low enough shutter speed, the sky is a little noisy, though it's hard to tell on the flickr compressed jpeg).

I upped the contrast, highlight definition and the blue saturation a very small amount. I shot this without any sort of polarizing or ND filter, so the sky was a little overexposed out of the camera, hence the blue saturation and highlight bump. I really loved the way you could kind of see the sun rising off the chapel, ie the bottom hasn't gotten hit by the sun yet, where the top is reflecting the first rays. Can't decide if I should sharpen it or not.

 

[MTVision]

That's a wicked cool building. I like the blue in the sky - you did a good job!

 

[fjrabon]

That's a wicked cool building. I like the blue in the sky - you did a good job!

Thanks! The more I edit color pictures the more I realize I edit everything to look like Kodachrome. Haha.