Church on winter evening

[vsa]

Just a snapshot-like picture while I was heading home. While not a great picture (compositionwise nor the subject or anything really) I kinda liked the wisps of snow due to longer exposure.. so I thought I'll fiddle with it for a bit. I was also kinda amazed how steady I managed to keep it. I guess the IS lens really does help in situations like this.

Shutter Speed: 0.5s
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 24 mm
ISO Speed: 800

Before and after:

1. Some RAW tweaking
2. Perspective correction with transform (not that it's spot on even now)
3. Noise reduction and sharpening
4. Curves adjustment layer for the church
5. Couple of Hue/Sat adjustment layers for the little slope and road on the foreground
6. Curves and Hue/Sat with mask to bring out the wisps a bit more
7. Finally a Curves layer to bring some more contrast

So anyways.. What do you guys think about the PP.

[AnnetteJ]

I think it works, although the top of the spire is getting a bit lost in the dark.

[richerimage]

Hi, first and foremost - what a great transformation!

Agree with the last post - maybe you could mask the spire to bring it out a little?

Personally, I would crop our the road at the bottom as well to give the church a more isolated feel.

[PowerPix]

I agree, the spire is a little too dark and cropping the road out would touch it up nicely.

[cgcaudle]

Great job! Looks very natural by getting rid of those yellow tones. Agree with the cropping idea.