Columns

Canon 60D, EF-S 18-135mm, f10, ISO100, 20mm, HDR, 5 Exposures

The Old Brick Church has resided in Mooresville, AL, since the 1830s and provides an interesting photographic frame. These columns just seem so out of place compared to the rest of this town where picket fences and wood siding are of the norm. The decay and weathering on the church make for great textures, especially with the great warm shadows provided from a sinking sun in the western sky.

Services in the church ceased in the 1960s and the building now owned by the city itself. You can read more about the church, and the rest of Mooresville, here: http://www.mooresvillealabama.com/brickchurch.htm

When researching this spot, there were quite a few images of these pillars online, so the frame itself is not very unique, however, I didn't see any images that brought out the detail of the building, so I was not concerned about using the similar frame. The dramatic shadows also played a big role in me setting the tripod in this spot.

Not much to the processing here. After tone mapping, a couple of presets from Perfect Effects were applied to bring out the textures and detail, then used Aperture for curve adjustments, sharpening and color enhancement. The last step was to use Focal Point to apply a planar focus bug to draw the eye a bit more towards the middle of the frame.