Welsh Church - St Michaels, Betws-Y-Coed

[djaphoto]

This was dragged from my hard drive after finding inspiration that I lacked initially.

A 14th Century Church in a nice Welsh village, which is popular with hikers from what I remember. Some more info on the Church: http://www.stmichaelsbyc.org.uk/

Quite a bit of processing in it...quite enjoying this experimenting with Photoshop of late lol :)

D50, 18-55mm, JPEG, Photoshop

http://www.djaphoto.co.uk/photoblog/images/20070828134648_eerie.jpg

[mmcp42]

that is one beautiful picture! :thumbs:

[djaphoto]

Thanks :D

As said, before I couldn't quite find a happy presentation of the image, not that I would upload and share anyway lol

This I like though :)

[Gandhi]

I think you deserve to be pleased.

I don't think I'd have had the grass as bright, but that's just my personal taste.

[mmcp42]

almost has an IR look about it!

[RickMezza]

Lovely.

[chewyuk]

Get's my vote as well - Like this shot allot.

[Mohain]

Like it a lot but not too keen on the green hue, looks a bit too ... artifical?

[Woodsy]

Lovely shot. Im not quite so keen on the colour gradient though, The clouds look as if they are tending towards sepia, and the grass looks ever-so slightly blue? Perhaps its the crappy monitor I'm using at work...

As mentioned, the grass is a little bright for my taste.

All that mentioned though, I love the composition, and the subject matter, contrast and textures work very well indeed! Very nice :)

[djaphoto]

Some good comments there, and appreciated too; thanks ;)

I'm not normally one to process images too much, but fancied it a little of late with images that I couldn't get to a stage that I was happy with as 'normal', so guess I was just experimenting and seeing if I could salvage any shots.

So in all, a good learning curve and thanks for the comments, all taken onboard :)

Dan

[deadpan]

Wow! Lots of memories from here, i 'think' this is where my Grandparents are resting, going to have make some calls to confirm this.

Ditto on the grass, but like you say it's all a learning curve

[engowen]

nicely touch up :)

[djaphoto]

Glad you like Deadpan, and that is possibly has some sentiment for you in a way :)

Will try and darken the grass later and repost to see what you guys think ;)

Dan

[PaulDCocker]

Love it, very atmospheric and striking, plus I like the processing, would love to see a shadowy/high-contrast B&W

[moomike]

:agree: & also agree about the bright grass comment, looks like a bit of the detail has been lost in the bright conversion.
Once the grass is sorted, it'll be a very very nice shot :thumbs: