Reflections of Heaven
I’m back at Downside Abbey for this Sliders Sunday play. Downside is a relatively new building, started in 1873 and still unfinished, but it is a beautiful church that was home to a thriving Benedictine monastic community. Sadly, the monastery is largely empty now, and the surviving community has moved to Herefordshire. It’s a beautiful place to visit and photograph.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment. This isn’t a monochrome conversion, merely heavily desaturated and then played with using black and white filter and inversion layers with different blend modes and opacities. That was after quite a bit of perspective correction using a Perspective filter layer.
The bulk of the work, though, was done with an HSL filter layer using minus 59% for the saturation slider. I’ll post the interim version, which is a half-decent image in itself. (flic.kr/p/2rAgZqZ)
I increased the size of the image canvas by two in each direction. I then duplicated the image layer three times to create extra layers, and then I flipped the copies both horizontally and vertically and arranged them so that you get a two-way mirror effect.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Reflections of Heaven
I’m back at Downside Abbey for this Sliders Sunday play. Downside is a relatively new building, started in 1873 and still unfinished, but it is a beautiful church that was home to a thriving Benedictine monastic community. Sadly, the monastery is largely empty now, and the surviving community has moved to Herefordshire. It’s a beautiful place to visit and photograph.
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment. This isn’t a monochrome conversion, merely heavily desaturated and then played with using black and white filter and inversion layers with different blend modes and opacities. That was after quite a bit of perspective correction using a Perspective filter layer.
The bulk of the work, though, was done with an HSL filter layer using minus 59% for the saturation slider. I’ll post the interim version, which is a half-decent image in itself. (flic.kr/p/2rAgZqZ)
I increased the size of the image canvas by two in each direction. I then duplicated the image layer three times to create extra layers, and then I flipped the copies both horizontally and vertically and arranged them so that you get a two-way mirror effect.
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday :)