Dennis Bishop
01-30-2016, 12:04 AM
At one time, there were three churches in Eckley, but only this Episcopal church built in 1859 and a Catholic church remain. The styles of the two churches are quite different. The exterior of the Catholic church, which is on the far east end of the street, is quite simple and painted white. The Episcopal church is about as far west as I had time to venture, unfortunately. The colors and trim are pretty much as you see them, but the shape of the building was substantially different. The width of the front is actually about the same as the distance from the top of the foundation to the peak of the upper roof. Instead of correcting the relatively small amount of distortion I got with the wide angle lens, I opted to exaggerate it to make the entire building -- rather than just the steeple -- look like it was reaching toward Heaven.
You might be able to make out the evergreen garland along the railings. I took the series of shots during a brief interruption on December 15 during a trip to spend the holidays with family in Connecticut.
159099
Nikon D3s, ISO 400, f/11, seven-exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals, zoom lens at 22mm
processing highlights
The distortion was achieved via the Warp mode in Photoshop's Free Transform.
The nearly cloudless sky was replaced with Flypaper Texture's Serafina Sky.
I'd photographed the hands (mine) a few years ago for a church publication. They'd been processed with a black & white pencil sketch effect (Alien Skin Snap Art???). I applied them in Luminosity blend mode and adjusted the opacity until they looked right with the existing clouds.
Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Hard Light
Photo Filter adjustment layer -- Warming 85 to tone down the blue of the sky but applied to the whole image
Fractalius -- three saved black & white presets; Multiply, Divide, Multiply; some masked, various opacities
Snap Art -- saved black & white Line Art, Multiply, masked off sky
Simplify -- saved black & white edges preset in both Multiply and Divide with inverse masks
Knoll Light Factory for the sun rays
You might be able to make out the evergreen garland along the railings. I took the series of shots during a brief interruption on December 15 during a trip to spend the holidays with family in Connecticut.
159099
Nikon D3s, ISO 400, f/11, seven-exposure HDR at 1 EV intervals, zoom lens at 22mm
processing highlights
The distortion was achieved via the Warp mode in Photoshop's Free Transform.
The nearly cloudless sky was replaced with Flypaper Texture's Serafina Sky.
I'd photographed the hands (mine) a few years ago for a church publication. They'd been processed with a black & white pencil sketch effect (Alien Skin Snap Art???). I applied them in Luminosity blend mode and adjusted the opacity until they looked right with the existing clouds.
Topaz Simplify -- saved watercolor preset
Alien Skin Snap Art -- saved watercolor wash preset, Hard Light
Photo Filter adjustment layer -- Warming 85 to tone down the blue of the sky but applied to the whole image
Fractalius -- three saved black & white presets; Multiply, Divide, Multiply; some masked, various opacities
Snap Art -- saved black & white Line Art, Multiply, masked off sky
Simplify -- saved black & white edges preset in both Multiply and Divide with inverse masks
Knoll Light Factory for the sun rays