Steeple In The Sky

[smoke665]

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]

Nice!

 

[smoke665]

Nice!

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

 

[Jeff15]

Nice one...

 

[smoke665]

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.]

Nice. I have a similar one here.

 

[smoke665]

Nice. I have a similar one here.

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

 

[zulu42]

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]

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.]

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

 

[Fujidave]

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

 

[smoke665]

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.

 

[Peeb]

Strong image!