Changing the light

A couple of months ago, a friend and I went driving in the country near where she lives. She wanted to show me an abandoned church I'd never seen, among other things. "Don't you think it'd be the perfect place to buy and fix up for a wedding chapel?!" she asked me. I did at first. But then, when I'd gotten out of the car and walked around it to take the photos I'd wanted, there was a feeling I didn't like, either. Can't explain it. Maybe it was related to the emptiness, the abandonment. But it felt darker than that, too. I didn't want to spend as much time shooting as I'd imagined, after all. But I got some before I decided I wanted to abandon my project.

Turns out that was also the week I messed up the settings on my camera and everything I shot came out dark. Dark as in nearly unusable.

So today while looking for a very specific image for a website collaboration, I came across this photo of the church sillhouetted against the sky. I'd forgotten all about it. Looking at it for a while, wondering if I should dump the whole directory,

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Photoshop tutorial to kickstart my creativity this morning

After

There's a fun tutorial over at Tutorial Blog, that teaches us how to do this cool effect with an ordinary photo, called Photoshop Tutorial: Getting that great X-PRO LOMO look. My favorite part about their description comes at the end: "And you’re done! Your image looks like it was shot on a little plastic toy camera with film that was processed wrong." And

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