Salisbury Cathedral

[paulm]

Took these whilst waiting to pick my daughter up from school. I also found a few new bits on photoshop elements that i had not noticed before so had a play.

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2.

[MrB]

Paul,

I like the more dramatic cloud patterns of number 1, but the colours of number 2 seem more natural to me. For the composition, you have obviously cropped the original 3:2 (or 2:3) format images. If you have enough in the originals, and as you have shot the cathedral from an end viewpoint, I think the subject would suit a portrait oriented format, e.g. 3:4 or 5:7, with a little more space above the spire and the bottoms of the plants visible in the foreground. I also suggest that the image could be rotated slightly anticlockwise to make the tower and spire vertical.

Just my opinions. Cheers.

Philip

[Ken Curtis]

I like the top photo best. It has a nice look to it. You might consider rotating the image slightly counter-clockwise as the cathedral appears to be leaning to the right.

[paulm]

cheers guys. I'll try and rotate it slightly. As for the crop there is sadly a huge tree to the right that would take your eye off the cathedral which is why its cropped out. There is also a small white fence to the bottom left also cropped out which is why i couldnt make it a portrait style shot.

Thanks for the comments again though

[dje]

Paul I prefer the second. Could I suggest the following pp

Reduce the highlights significantly to darken the sky and give it more texture (Shadows/Highlights adjustment in Elements)
Rotate as suggested
Add a little sharpening
Perhaps increase the colour saturation a little

Dave

[paulm]

I had a go at what you said dave. i ended up with this after doing as you said

[Quinn]

Hay Paul
Nice image. Definite improvement on the original. Is the spire still lop sided? May I also suggest bringing out a little of the detail in the Cathedral with some dudicious dodge n burning. Also the top of the roof and spire seem to be taking on a little blue colour cast ?
Has a great 3 dimensional look !

Cheers
Phil

[dje]

Paul I think the edit does improve it however I think you've actually raised the shadows as well as reducing the highlights. The Shadows/Highlights adjustment opens up with a default setting of 25 on the shadows enhancement and you have to wind it down to zero if you don't want any shadow enhancement (which I dont think you need for this image). Winding this down should give richer colours on the cathedral.

Dave