About the Image(s)

This image of a modern church was taken on my recent trip to Iceland.

The image was taken with my Olympus OM-1 with a 12-40mm lens. The camera was hand-held, and the settings were manual focus, f7.1, 1/1000s, ISO 400, +0.3 stop.

I was aiming for a dramatic mono image, so following basic adjustments in Camera Raw I made the following changes in Photoshop:

- Corrected the perspective, then removed background distractions and the light post in the foreground.

- Added a different sky with some clouds.

- Converted to mono using Nik Silver Efex.

- I copied this layer and then masked off the church and cross.

- I darkened the background using curves and a gradient fill.

- I then applied a whole series of curve adjustments and gradient fills to different segments of the church and cross.