Randomly at PHIXR.com I selected a sepia tone effect, knowing this was not the ideal picture for that effect. Imagine my surprise when I got a clean white image presented. The whitewash effect that transformed the photo stunned me. I’ll remember this next time I need pure white finish in a image file. The delicate cream white presentation made the wicker look more genteel and Victorian than any lens setting I could ever manage.
As with many walkabout photo grabs, I worked first get real clarity and shots of my subject material. In the editing session I noticed that the resolution was so high on a lot of my museum shots they were almost too difficult to examine for uniform tones and deep and near/far crispness. But cropping the sides of the shot generated a lot more visual drama inside the frame. The “forced” intersection of the vertices of the vaulted “flying buttresses” to the near wall created a perspective repetition of the arched “tunnel”. Certainly the word “cathedral” came to mind many times. But the image files allowed me to convey the excitement the grandeur of the structure created in me.
This is a good kind of shot to grab when the light is bright enough and coming at an angle which doesn’t flavor the background too heavily with building shadows. I had to work to get the focus right on the fence ornament, and I had to consider while taking the picture how much fence detail to include.