This one needed a bit of post processing!

Chris Summers · Nov 10, 2023

The DeWitt county courthouse in Cuero, Texas is a beautiful building and unlike a lot of the old courthouses I saw is not shrouded in large live oak trees so it was possible to get a good shot of the front facade. Only problem was it faces west and the sun at 10 in the morning was pretty high up in the east making the front all in shadow.

I shot a hand held burst of 5 exposures roughly a stop apart and then did a HDR merge in Lightroom. When I know I will be doing a lot of adjustments in cropping and straightening verticals I always shoot with plenty of space around the subject. I did my basic adjustments and the cropped and adjusted the vertical plane so the building did not appear to be falling backwards. Using the masking tool I was able to adjust the exposure and white balance of the building and also adjust the sky for a bit of a deeper blue. Here is a before and after:

ACEkin · Nov 10, 2023

Chris Summers said:
The DeWitt county courthouse in Cuero, Texas is a beautiful building and unlike a lot of the old courthouses I saw is not shrouded in large live oak trees so it was possible to get a good shot of the front facade. Only problem was it faces west and the sun at 10 in the morning was pretty high up in the east making the front all in shadow.

I shot a hand held burst of 5 exposures roughly a stop apart and then did a HDR merge in Lightroom. When I know I will be doing a lot of adjustments in cropping and straightening verticals I always shoot with plenty of space around the subject. I did my basic adjustments and the cropped and adjusted the vertical plane so the building did not appear to be falling backwards. Using the masking tool I was able to adjust the exposure and white balance of the building and also adjust the sky for a bit of a deeper blue. Here is a before and after:

Nicely handled the problem.

Archibald · Nov 10, 2023

Great job of postprocessing. The colors of the building and sky look true. The correction of the verticals worked pretty good. The only thing is, there seems to be a slight curve to the building especially toward the right.

Mriker · Nov 10, 2023

Nice bit of work there

Arbarthisti · Nov 10, 2023

Nicely done

micheric · Nov 10, 2023

Very nice, Chris awesome job. Beautiful building to bad they really don’t make them like that any longer.

KD_Reno · Nov 10, 2023

Color and exposure adjustments worked well.

To my eyes the building appears to tilt slightly to the left. The vertical lines seem to be ok, but the horizontal lines are off a bit. Maybe rotate it just enough to split the difference. But it's also possible that my eye are off.

Only RF · Nov 10, 2023

Good work.

Kerro · Nov 10, 2023

Nice work Chris and hand held too. The HDR came out really well. Great image.

David Stallard · Nov 11, 2023

Really nicely done Chris, think you have managed to keep the processing close to 'as is' as possible.

This one needed a bit of post processing!

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