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Step by Step Image: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Step by Step Image: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Step by Step Image: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart

Dec 13, 2014 | Posted by Brian Beard | Tips and How-To's |

Today, I want to take you through the steps I took to frame and edit a photo I recently took of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Richmond, VA. I was riding my bike home from the gym when I noticed that the sun was shining on just the top half of the church. I thought this might make a cool photo, so I pulled over and took out my phone.

Here’s the first picture I took:

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Nothing too special. Just the church with the sun shining on it. So I though I could change the angle a bit to make it seem larger. To do this, I kneeled on the ground, with the lens on my phone as close to the ground as I could get. You can see how it changed the photo:

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Next, I looked around to find something to place in the foreground. I’ve recently seen a lot a few photos I really like in which the photographer framed something mundane in the foreground, and the photo’s subject in the background. I found a bright red leaf, and placed it on the ground in front of my camera and snapped my photo:

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Unfortunately, the sunlight wasn’t getting down to street level (you can see by the photo that I was in the shadows), so the colors in the photo weren’t as bright as I’d seen them (especially the leaf). So, I uploaded the photo into Snapseed, my preferred editing app, and went to work.

First, I used the shadow slider to reduce the shadows and lighten the photo. Then, I increased the contrast by a small amount and saturated the colors to make them pop. Finally, I used the HDR setting to enhance the colors further:

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Almost done! I didn’t like some of the less aesthetic objects in the frame, such as the telephone and light poles, road signs, and cars. So I added a blur effect to everything but the leaf in order to draw focus away from the details, and toward the larger elements – the bright leaf and the large church lit by the sun. Here’s the final result:

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Brian is an aspiring entrepreneur, traveler, and athlete. He's a seasoned analyst with a passion for measuring everything and using data to understand the world. He's also an adventurer with passport stamps from 31 countries and counting. You can find him on twitter and instagram.

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