The old baptist church
Feb/22/09 16:16 Filed in: Photo shoots
Another visit to the old stone baptist church in Boylston
The
reservoir laid still and frozen in the afternoon sun.
But of course I did not bring my camera with me. So I
ventured out one morning later in the past week to
get some shots in from this stunning scene. I arrived
just after sunrise, with the sun not quite above the
horizon line. The light was coming from the back,
shining directly on the church. But sure enough, by
the time I was setup, that moment with the orange
glowing sky over the church was missed and the sky
turned into a pale blue. Well, this turned into an
opportunity to try out my new 0.6x grad ND filter.
And with the sun in my back, the polarizer should
work quite fine to bring some life back to those
sunrise colors. Thought and done, the two filters
were stacked on top of each other. Rotating he
polarizer brought the sunrise indeed back to life. I
was well aware that I had to pay attention not to
rotate the grad ND while adjusting the polarizer.
However, it still happened. And I ended up with a 45
degree darkened horizon across the church as I found
out at home... The first course of action was to mark
the grad ND with red tape, so I can see now the
horizon line. Stupid beginners mistakes.
I
wondered how to adjust the exposure, so that I could
capture the rough texture of the ice. Taking a few
shots at different stops to combine them seemed like
a good solution. The final images shown here are
partially HDR and a manual blend of different
exposures in the forest background to emphasize some
of the trees more then others.
