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Please compare this with the original version which is in my folder

France 2012. I've been endeavouring to improve my post processing

skills - is there any appreciable improvement? Suggestions as to

how to further improve the image (either at capture stage or in post

processing) would be very much appreciated.

HDR was working here or something else, nevertheless, well, very well done! Wonderful spectacle and feeling! I would, though erase the cars! Although they don't bother much the composition!

Best regards, Graham!

PDE

Thanks for your comments Pierre - I would love to erase the cars - and have in fact remove the one right in the centre of the frame - but my cloning skills are so very limited that I wouldn't have a hope of credibly removing any more vehicles. (I blush at the bodged attempt I've already made which is painfully obvious if you view this image large size!)

Thanks for your comments thought, appreciated as always.

This is a wonderful building and you have captured the magnificence beautifully. I really like the B & W processing and the fine detail. I know what you mean about the cars.........but they seem to be everywhere these days!

The is a bit of distortion, but none that would spoil my viewing pleasure! 

There are perhaps two ways to avoid or counteract the distortion. You can use a tilt and shift lens. Or you can make adjustments in RAW converters such as Adobe Lightroom or CS6. If you do intend to make adjustments for distortion  PP, then you should also allow a good deal of space around the subject to allow for the process. 

Very well done Graham! 

Best Regards 

Alf 

Thanks Alf.

I don't have lightroom or CS6 - my budget will only stretch to Elements!

I used to be able to do lens correction in Paintshop Pro, but it doesn't appear to be in Elements...unless anyone out there in Adobe world knows otherwise?

Hi, Graham! This is a wonderful image, the B&W works well, the shadow/light toning is beutiful. I like the cars on the photo, these give some life to the scene and the church is not too static now. I think the cars make the image. Excellent work.

Me again!

When I thought more thoroughly I concluded that the cars are a part of the composition, but they are too many and not all on the right places! I removed the surplus of the cars, repaired the dodged part and straightened up a bit cause the converging lines were not in the same angle and the axes of the tower wasn't quite rectangular positioned to the basis!

Otherwise, I don't agree with Alf with the straightening of all converging lines, because  the convergence emphasizes, as he said the magnificence of the spectacle!

The removing of the whole car was very difficult and it wasn't done with perfection, but could be with more time and efforts spent on it!

Here is what I did: