Mariners Church

Mariners Church, a photo by Tony DeSantis Photography on Flickr.

Got out early this morning looking for something to shoot. Didn't really feel like going into LA so I hung out In Orange County. I drove down into Laguna Beach and drove around and up through the hills looking for a view of the sunrise. Unimpressed by anything I was finding I decided to head on back home. Getting an extra hour of sleep before helping the wife clean out the garage sounded like a pretty good idea.
Mariners Church was on the way home. I have shot this church before a few years back at night when I first started with HDR. the shot didn't come out as nice as I wanted then so having the opportunity again to shoot it and the morning sky behind it I decided to give it another go.
I like the result maybe you can give me your opinion if you like it or not.
Thanks for stopping by.

The Shot:

>Standard 6 Shot HDR +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3  ISO 100, F/11, 10-20mm Sigma @11mm, Tripod and cable shutter release

Post Processing:

>ACR

>Removed All Sharpening, Removed Black,  Added Noise Reduction, Removed Chromatic Abberration

>Saved as Tiffs

Photomatix:

>Detail Enhancer

>Strength 80%

>Color Saturation 86%

>Smoothing (High)

>Luminosity 6.00

>White Point 3.654

>Black Point 1.055

>Microsmoothing 2.0 (Default)

>Microcontrast 2.0 

>Saved as 16 Bit Tiff

Post Processing CS-5

>Topaz Adjust-Color and Detail Enhancement

>Topaz InFocus-Sharpening Just the buildings

>Topaz Denoise-Sky only

>Color efex Pro 3.0

   >Pro Contrast

   >Tonal Contrast (Everything but sky)

   >Glamour Glow (Everything below the church only)

>Adjustment Layer-Hue/Sat-Yellows-Grass and sky saturation of colors

>Adjustment Layer-Curves- Pull down brightness of left hand sky only

>Adjustment Layer-Curves-Increase brightness in church and tower for more contrast against sky

>Light Vignette applied

>High pass sharpening

>Cropped, Framed and Sized for posting