Old Church
May, 2016Views
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Location
Old church in Denver ColoradoTime
Taken late morningLighting
I know the golden rule of photographing outside is 1 hour after sunrise and 1 hour just before sunset. But for buildings, any time of the day will create something different. for Buildings, Shadows can add to your pictures as well as distract from them.Equipment
This is a rework of an older photo I have. I had a Pentax at the time and I always shoot no flash without a tripod. I am on my second Sony camera and I love the Sony 7ii I currently have. No matter the time of day I use the Twilight hand held mode. I feel I get better colors. My 50 ml 1.8 lens rarely comes off my camera.Inspiration
After losing my Mom to cancer I would drive around looking for anything to photograph to help me get through my grief and tended to be drawn towards old cemeteries and old buildings. I was on one of those day trips in the car just wandering down city streets when I came across this Church.Editing
I use a lot of post processing these days. I like to go back and re-work photographs from when I started taking pictures years ago. The original picture was begging for some life and artwork to be breathed into it. I went with the sepia tones and a grunge texture overlay to bring out an ancient dark feeling of abandonment. I always start in Lightroom then to Photoshop for clean up and then toss the pictures into one of the several art overlay programs I have like Perfect Effects.In my camera bag
I have an equipment bag full of lenses and extra batteries, cards, and snacks and business cards, but most of my photography trips are me and my camera jumping in the care and headed to various local music venues to photograph and film local bands performing or to do a motorcycle shoot with models for a local free magazine I've been shooting for going on two years now.Feedback
All photographs are ART no matter your subject; a building, a flower, a person, or landscape! It will never be seen the way you see it at that moment ever again, you are the artist, capture it! Walk all the around your subject, raise your camera up, hold your camera low, tilt the camera slightly to any angle. Give yourself the freedom to explore the views rather than to perfectly center what your photographing. PLAY with what photo editing software you have! Ask yourself how does this effect on this picture make me feel? Would you hang the photo on your wall? If not Keep Playing with it until you smile proudly and feel the artist in you achieving something that makes you smile.
