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Reflections of Heaven

This church has always been one of my favorite sites around Pittsburgh. With a little Photoshop editing it becomes one of my favorite pictures as well. ...
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This church has always been one of my favorite sites around Pittsburgh. With a little Photoshop editing it becomes one of my favorite pictures as well.
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Dec, 2017

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Magnificent Capture

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Behind The Lens

Location

In Robinson, PA there’s a church I’ve always been visually drawn toward. It sits on a large hill overlooking the surrounding areas with graves encircling the structure. I’ve just always wanted to take a photograph of this interesting location.

Time

This was around lunch, I was out and about looking for what I wanted to capture.

Lighting

Just a normal day, a little over cast. If I had to choose a time to snap a shot of this, I’d pick around magic hour.

Equipment

This was when I first got my Sony A7s, attached an 24mm Rokinon lens. No tripod or flash (I’m not a big fan of flash on cameras)

Inspiration

In all honesty, I don’t look for inspiration to take photographs, I snap when I feel. If something looks interesting, I take a photo. This was in the area, and I felt the want to take this.

Editing

Absolutely, this is from a couple hours toying around in PhotoShop. I ended up flipping the full shot, transformed it down to match the edges with one another, and the actual color correction on it, is a camera setting that I adjusted by boosting the contrast, as well as creating a slight Gaussian layer bringing its opacity to about 15% to create a slight glow.

In my camera bag

At all times I have my Sony A7s, my lenses (18, 24, 35, 50, & 85) they work in any situation. My SD cards, as well as my three backup batteries.

Feedback

There’s not much advice I can give other than, capture what you want. Follow your eyes. If you find yourself looking at a certain thing and not even thinking, just living in the moment, pull out that camera and take as many pictures as you can. Make sure to Adjust settings (if you have that ability with your camera). My photography teacher once said that for every 25 photos there is only one that is actually good. So snap, snap, snap.

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Reflections of Heaven

This church has always been one of my favorite sites around Pittsburgh. With a little Photoshop editing it becomes one of my favorite pictures as well. ... Read more

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