I originally intended to take some type of landscape shot today since I have the new lens, but the sky was really not conducive to it. It was a very bright overcast day, so the contrast would've been horrendous. Instead, I stopped at the Saint John's Episcopal Church in Barrington, intending to take a fire escape shot. When that didn't work out (basically do to the composition involved) I fell back on option #3 - this shot of the side door entrance to the church. There are actually two doors here, one marked in stained glass for boys and the other for girls. The fact that they both led to the same hallway didn't prevent the external segregation. It reminds me of all the one-room schoolhouses in the state that have that same boy-girl entrance distinction.
A bit of post processing was done to enhance the somewhat flat nature of the door. The colors were somewhat muted and boring, so I ran it through Topaz Adjust to improve the richness a bit. Some saturate adjustments brought that back under control, and an inverted soft light blend of a "find edges" filter really drew out the details in the door. A hint of sharpening was done with a soft light blend of a high pass filter at 4 pixels. A warm light photo filter completed the effect.
