Cantate Domino

Published July 16, 2010

Quick break from our regularly scheduled Project 52. I was sifting through some images from the last wedding I shot in Chestnut Hill, PA and saw these two I originally overlooked. These were taken in the musician’s loft on the balcony at Our Lady of Consolation Church. I really liked the dramatic lighting up there along with the beautiful, old-fashioned organ. There was something very rustic about the scene up there, even the old sheet music, which was already yellowing and riddled with someone’s hand written notes. I decided to take these detail shots and apply a more painterly feel to them. While these may look like HDR images, they’re actually victims of my new favorite plugin, the Tonal Contrast Filter, in Nik Color Efex 2.0.

The title of this post translates to “Church Song/Music” in Latin (I think, someone please correct me if I’m wrong!).

Photo info: Nikon D700, Left: ISO 2000, 1/200th sec @ f/3.5; Right: ISO 2000, 1/200th sec @ f/2.8
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