The crumbling stone edifice in the foreground is a 13th century "Poor Soul's Light". It was used to hold candles for Masses said for the souls in purgatory and is believed to be the only outdoor example in England. This is in the grounds of the Parish Church of All Saints, Bisley, Gloucestershire, England.
Shot as three Bracketed Frames around +1 EV. RAW conversions and adjustments in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 into Photomatix for Tone Mapping and then finished in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta software.
Yes Steve, this is impeccable and could be med format film. I just love the texture you got from this and the tone in the lone cedar is to die for! I used to have an "orange" Heliopan filter that I used a lot with my b&w film images. It really gave tremendous depth to things like this.
Regards,
Carol
Thank you both for commenting. mediumformat fan: this image was converted to B&W using an Orange Filter to darken the blue sky, so your observation was not too far out. A Red Filter would also alter the "look" of the image, but I just chose to run with the Orange this time. Steve
I'm looking at this shot in B&W and the edifice melds with the church. The shadow between the two gives it a nice separation. I think this shot works much better here. I'm glad I took another look. :-)
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Shot as three Bracketed Frames around +1 EV. RAW conversions and adjustments in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 into Photomatix for Tone Mapping and then finished in Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta software.