[Leica] Lee England's PAW

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Lee,
If you can arrange access to the church then the time to shoot is just after
sunset or just before sunrise.  You balance the light inside with the light
outside.  Or do what the archetectural guys do with a double exposure. :)
Once, I even got a reasonable image from my grandparents church in
Greenville when there was a terrible storm outside.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 1/26/06, Lee England <Engl6914@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Bruce,
>
>    The scene in the church is quite high in contrast because of the
> windows.  I've tried it before on a sunny day, and there's just no
> hope.  So
> I caught this one on a cloudy day, and even then the contrast is
> high.  When
> I tried the #1 or #1/2 filter the scene looked so washed out it lost its
> vitality.  If you look at the scene again you'll notice, with the
> exception
> of the ceiling lamps at the very top, there's not a curved line at
> all.  So
> I finally decided the high contrast suited the starkness of the scene and
> used a #2 filter.  It was that light and contrast, after all, that
> attracted
> me to the scene.
>    The thought of cropping out the windows never occurred to me since I
> was
> never distracted, just struck by the starkness of it all.  I'm catholic,
> and
> there're so many curved lines at St. Mary in Natchez it seemed absurd
> someone could pray here.  This is my 2nd PAW and each time someone has
> been
> distracted by a blown highlight that hadn't bothered me.  So I appreciated
> the comments and resolve to get better and start noticing such.  I learned
> all my photography from a book and having a very large trash can.  This
> kind
> of forum is a big help to me.
>
> Lee England
> Natchez, Mississippi
> USA
>
> On 26 JAN 06 Bruce wrote:
>
> > Really like the stark black and white effect.
> >
> > May I ask if you tried removing the door frame on the left and the
> > window frame on the right? I think that crop would enhance the image.
> >
> > Thanks for showing and detailing part of history,
> > B.
>
> On 24-jan-2006, at 16:07, Lee England wrote:
>
> > This is my second PAW--a print I did this week.  It's the interior
> > of the
> > church at Rocky Springs, Mississippi, on the old Natchez Trace.  It
> > was
> > there when General Grant's army invaded Mississippi, passing by on
> > the road
> > just outside.  All of the yankee Army of Tennessee's infantry
> > divisions
> > bivouaced on various days around the church because of the water
> > source of
> > Rocky Springs.
> >     The Army of Tennessee moved on to Jackson, then turned toward
> > Vicksburg
> > and beat us at Champion Hill near Edwards, Miss., then took the
> > bridge over
> > the Big Black River (near US highway 80 bridge).  Once they had
> > that and
> > then took Haynes Bluff, giving them access to supply boats on the
> > Yazoo
> > River, Vicksburg was doomed.  When Vicksburg fell it just killed us.
> >     Taken with Leica M2, 35mm Summaron, Ilford HP5 developed in HC110.
> >
> > http://englandphotographic.com/paw.html
> >
> > Lee England
> > Natchez, Mississippi
>
>
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