Steeple In The Sky

smoke665 · May 27, 2018

Roaming around this afternoon and saw the setting sun backlighting the steeple on this little church in valley. Not sure I did it justice. C&C welcome on how this could be better.

Cox Gap05272018_070-Edit.jpg by William Raber, on Flickr

Jeff G · May 27, 2018

Nice!

smoke665 · May 27, 2018

Jeff G said:
Nice!

Thank you just edited, as I had forgotten to tame down the watermark. Maybe this is a little less glaring.

Jeff15 · May 28, 2018

Nice one...

smoke665 · May 28, 2018

Created a couple of camera raw filter masks with yellow fills, to bring out the sun. Any better/worse?

Steeple In The Sky.jpg by William Raber, on Flickr

Gary A. · May 28, 2018

Nice. I have a similar one here.

smoke665 · May 28, 2018

Gary A. said:
Nice. I have a similar one here.

Thanks Gary!! Which one is better the first or the second with more color?

zulu42 · May 28, 2018

Very nice. I prefer the second edit.

The watermark still disturbs those lines in the corner. Maybe an upper corner location for this one?

smoke665 · May 28, 2018

zulu42 said:
Very nice. I prefer the second edit.

The watermark still disturbs those lines in the corner. Maybe an upper corner location for this one?

Thank you. I agree the watermark is annoying. I have LR set to automatically add when it uploads, but it doesn't give much flexibility. When I do the final edit before printing I'll do something different.

Gary A. · May 28, 2018

The first. Better and more even distribution of the highlights behind the cross.

Fujidave · May 29, 2018

IMO the first shot and edit is the better one, just like the lighting more.

smoke665 · May 29, 2018

Thanks guys. Sometimes less really is more. There was a heavy dark gray cloud layer blocking the sun, causing very muted dull colors. The first is more representative of the actual sky that day.