St Peter's Church

[Martyn]

I've posted images of St Peter's church previously on the forum, but I need to keep going back to my favourite places to retake and improve upon my previous work. This time I wanted to try mono. Please feel free to tell me what you think of both the composition and the processing.

 

[GrahamNfk]

I think you and mono are a match made in heaven. It's a beautiful photo - I'd like to be that good... to be fair I'd settle for half that good!

[Heather]

love the image and the composition looks good to me, although im not expert 

 

my only niggle is the small branches in the foreground which tend to keep drawing my eye. i think i would have tried to push them down out of the picture, or moved around a little till they were out of shot ? 

[Martyn]

 

my only niggle is the small branches in the foreground which tend to keep drawing my eye. i think i would have tried to push them down out of the picture, or moved around a little till they were out of shot ? 

 

That's one of the things I saw in the viewfinder as I stood on top of the banking to take the shot. It's the top of a sapling, but I couldn't reach with my foot to bend it out of the way. I did consider climbing down and removing it from view, but the place is so popular I didn't have another chance to take the shot with none of those flipping tourists with cameras wandering all over the place!

[FUJI]

WOW! Martyn,

This study certainly hits the spot, mono at its very best.........I do agree with Heather regarding those intrusive branches though, remove those and you have an absolute winner of a shot.

My ability to look more critically at my own work, has been helped recently by a new photographic friendship ( and occassional coffee) with a well respected judge of photographs to a number of prestigious art groups and societies ...... He can be critical to the point of very real annoyance, but! a few days later, look again at a shot he has criticised and 99.9% of the time he is right.

FUJI

[Heather]

hope you dont mind Martyn but i had a little play in photoshop 

 

[David]

I love this one. Composition is spot on and I really like the darkened area at the top - I think it adds atmosphere. And Heather, that touch up is spot on

[Martyn]

You beat me to it Heather! With praise like that from Fuji I fired up my copy of Photoshop CS2 which has remained unused until now. I've read up a bit on the cloning stamp and given it a go. I've replaced the original picture with my modified image; hope I haven't messed it up.

[David]

Looks fine to me Martyn 

[Heather]

youve done a grand job Martyn

[Korky]

A grand job indeed - the removal of the branches turns it into a excellent image.

 

Although I'm now not sure who cloned 'em out. You or Heather?

 

Korky

[Leon]

I'm sure we drove past there, is it on the way out of Morecambe on the left down a country lane?

[Martyn]

A grand job indeed - the removal of the branches turns it into a excellent image.

 

Although I'm now not sure who cloned 'em out. You or Heather?

 

Korky

 

Heather did an edit on my picture which appears in her post. I did an edit on my own pic at the same time, which is now the one in the original post. Sorry if this has caused any confusion!

[Martyn]

I'm sure we drove past there, is it on the way out of Morecambe on the left down a country lane?

 

Hi Leon, I think you may have seen another church. You can't see St Peter's from the road, and you wouldn't pass it on the way out of town. This is pretty much the edge of the world here, the next step being the Isle of Man where folks have three legs and drive around on two wheels!