Well it was Bev's birthday on Saturday, Jaime and Tracey and I went with Bev to her new favorite restaurant in West Philly. We had a marvelous meal...Bev had shrimp with Wasabe Rice...she loved the rice! I had a wonderful Salmon with a blood orange reduction. Great stuff! Well after the meal I went out to smoke while the ladies kibitzed a bit. Took pictures of a wonderful display of cornflowers along the front of the restaurant. And then I noticed the setting sun on the church across the way. So I shot away and came up with this. Happy Birthday, Bev!!!
Post: Ooooh tough one. Not quite sure how I got it this way, but lately I haven't had to worry! LOL!
Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue saturation. Tried a gradient layer....hmmm....that I have no Idea how to do so it must not have worked. Tried playing with curves...big time...but it ended up looking like a kid's coloring book picture. Tried a warming filter. Oy....Nothing! Then I gave it a boost of Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Brilliance and Warmth and that sort of did the trick with a boost from a curves adjustment. Cloned out a TV atenna that was in the center of the 4 cross towers of the church. Appeared to be a lot of dust or something to the right of the finished image so it was cloned out but eventually cropped altogether. Once the final crop was decided, I cloned out a small clumped of the trees on the lower mid left. Sharpen. Resize. Sharpen.
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this is totally awesome .. love the silhouette ... the suggested trees and of course that amazing sky .. i dont know wot the title means unfortunately ..
just googled the title and wot a fitting title it is!!! “May eternal light shine upon them" .. and sorry but the title boosts this from 8 to 10 ..!! .. i say sorry, coz i'm voting not only on the image but the combination of the image with its title, and of course how well it fits the challenge ..
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