It’s no wonder why the Church of the Good Shepherd has been described as New Zealand’s most-often photographed church… Just a short morning around the church was all I needed to capture two dramatic shots one of which I posted here previously, and the current one above. Post-processing with curves and saturation has been done to bring out the contrast and dramatic lighting of the scene.
It was amazing how the clouds parted and regrouped so quickly during our visit to New Zealand. This dramatic cloud pattern shot was taken right before I took this shot. For this particular picture, I tilted the camera more skywards to emphasize the pattern of the parting clouds.
A companion to my first “lamb post”… 😛 I was lucky to catch yet another baby lamb looking for a drink of milk, this time at a closer distance, and with another baby lamb looking on too!
If you’ve followed my earlier rant about Adobe Lightroom’s handling of colours (take a look at Lightroom’s version of the above picture), here’s what I found on Adobe’s forums. Seems like the decision to switch back to Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) is the right one to take for now. Actually, DPP has improved with newer versions, kudos to Canon. The newest one I’m using (version 3.2) even include lens aberration correction for at least 2 out of the 3 most common lenses I use). Liking the results I got (having gotten used to and overcoming DPP’s poorer interface), I have replaced some of my recent NZ posts with DPP-rendered versions instead. So do take a look at these posts again if you found their colours lackluster recently. Hopefully, you might end up as pleasantly surprised as I am 🙂
