This Church is such and amazing piece of architecture! I have been meaning to take pictures of it for a while now - I just got my 300D and it gave me some inspiration, FINALLY!
The shot was taken at night and overexposed to give the "Guiding Light" effect - although I'm sure I will here about how I overexposed it quite a bit though ;) This was not my favorite shot, but I wasn't really shooting for the challenge either so most were full frame shots. I'm not sure this entry completely fits the challenge, but I am going to give it a shot anyway. Maybe someone else likes it too...
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Default Shadow/Highlight adjustment to bring out red sky a little better
Levels adjustment to add contrast and make light and shadows stand out more
Resize to 640
Unsharp Mask just a little to bring out texture in some of the overexposed bricks better
Save for Web optimized to 148K
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Harsh light; the faces of the towers are overexposed. The light on the turrets looks good. You might have been better off framing your shot to include only the tops of these towers.
Blown highlights and I feel the light in the background distracts from the photo too. Maybe waiting another 30 minutes to take the picture would have helped.
I feel as if the subject here is the entire church, not sure if that is correct however. Since this is the case, I feel that you do not meet the requirements of the photo, since it takes up about 40% of the given frame.
I'm sure some will score low simply because of size. I don't mind this, but I am concerned about the blown out highlights in the centre. Better exposure would have scored an extra 1-2 points in my mind. Definately worth going back to reshoot - lovely structure and could have some cracker colouring - I'd also aim to shoot just a touch earlier and get some more complimentary colours in the sky.
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