Durham Cathedral - evening light

[KenCo]

This is a 4 shot HDR done in CS2 merge to hdr (the first time I have really used CS2 for this). Shots taken with the Sigma 70-300 apo dg macro lens at 70mm f16, shutter speeds between 1/20 - 1/1 sec. and iso 400.
I did desaturate and lighten the yellows but only just got round to processing (quickly) so might be off somewhat.....


http://www.kensphotography.poijoy.com/images/Forums/New/Durham-Cathedral-evening-hd.jpg

C&C Welcome.
TFL.
Ken.

[Hoodi]

It's an interesting shot, with some interesting light - but personally I'd like to see a little bit less shadow detail.
Location seems lovely, but compositionally it's a little bit uninspiring - to me at least. Perhaps you could have incooperated more of the surroundings? Perhaps they were ugly ;)
Having said that, this is ace postcard material. If you live in the area, I'd show it to official types at the cathedral. Or mebbe even local shops.

[brummie]

Looks a bit over sharpened to me. Excellent piccy otherwise and definately a framer, maybe little less sky cause as previously mentioned it looks like you've left room for 'wish you were here'. IMO anyhow.

[lee]

a lovely picture, would like to see it repeated with different lighting, time of day, season etc.... :thumbs:

[KenCo]

Yeah thanks guys....I used an action for sharpening but didn't realise all the usm boxes were ticked. I have also desaturated the red and yellow further....
I quite like the shot and used the 70-300 because of the nearby train station, though I did take a couple of wider angles...I also had a good walk around getting the Cathedral from many different angles....not easy trying to get a shot that has been taken 1000 times before but it was a good night.....I aslo done the Quayside last night but hjaven't processed them yet.
Thanks again.
Ken.