First UMC - Salado, No. 2

Very nice...

The clouds may have been teasing you, but you managed to capture a nice feeling of the place.
About the only critique I may offer is less parking lot and a little more sky... especially those teasing clouds.

gene

Thanks Drew and Gene. Gene, you nailed my frustration with this...it is a documentary shot, but there is tooo much parking lot. Was using all the rise I had and could not tilt up without distrotion, so the solution I think is to crop the parking lot out. Not a bad option actually.

or you could dampen the parking lot to darken it a bit... but as it is a documentary shot, what you see is what you get!

I have to say, Im biased towards keeping the pavement as is.
Always felt like foreground pavement and the texture it conveys can sometimes be successful.

nice print mike... looks like a wonderful density range in that neg.

Thanks Matt, the negative is one of those you get all excited about when you pull it out. Looked great and printed great

"Was using all the rise I had"...

Don't know if your camera supports it, but have you thought of doing an "incline" bed? It will give you more rise without the distortion of tilt. Only other question is if the coverage of your lens supports it. I often tend to forget the options of "drop" and "incline bed"...

Here's some images showing it:
http://www.imagedancer.com/view_camera_movements.htm

Even with the vertical thrust of the steeple, I might have gone with a hortizontal format to get rid of the excess parking lot...and even with the trees on both sides, it might have helped to relieve some of the feeling that the church is a bit penned in.

A hort composition would have given you a little pavement, then the painted lines leading the eye to the church.

Some of the nicest light I have captured has been sunlight partially blocked by clouds -- clicking the shutter just before the shadows disappear.

Vaughn