[Steve Robb]

This is one of my first attempts at RAW imaging, I've had a mess about with it and am quite pleased, what do you think?

[Summerleft]

The colours etc are nice but as a composition I think face on with equal space each side showing the church doors would be nice.

[Steve Robb]

Me too, unfortunately the footpath is only a couple of feet across and there is a damn great barrier there with a very busy road on the other side, and I didn't fancy standing in the middle of the road trying to take a photo

[fionaB]

i think its nice , the colours i think would benefit form ust a teeny tweak to bring them up a tad but nothing dramatic! Nice one tho well done

Fi

[Charlotte]

I like it, and technically it's a good photograph. I think a tight crop around the porch is called for here. I had a go at it, but I've exceeded my upload limit for today. I tried a tight crop as mentioned and did a bit of tidying up, in order to focus more attention onto the porch, e.g. a bit of cloning and burning back some detail to make it stand out more. I could upload my effort tomorrow if you're interested in looking, in case it gives you any ideas.

[Steve Robb]

Absolutely, I'd love to see it, anything that helps me 'get it right' next time is always appreciated

[Rob Barron]

I think this works nicely enough Steve but if I am honest I am not sure this is a great candidate for doing HDR with, simply because it doesn't have a lot of extremes either light or dark and so shouldn't be too hard to get the shot with full dynamic range anyway. I hope that makes sense.

Nice enough without doing an awful lot to make me keep looking.

Cheers,
Rob

[Charlotte]

Here's what I came up with Steve. As I said, mainly trying to tidy up clutter (cloned out a few small distractions) and a tighter crop, and also some dodging + burning to bring out even more detail. All these manipulations were done with one thing in mind - to direct focus onto the porch.

[M1ke]

I prefer yours Steve. Shame to lose the lovely blue church clock.