Chapel on the Hill

Where is an old sleigh when you need one? That’s what was going through my mind as I was shooting this over the weekend. This local chapel has always been something I wanted to shoot in winter but it has been elusive. This was a disaster trying to capture this scene as I could only park on a side street up hill where the bright street light is. That meant I had to carry my tripod with camera attached, my tablet, my umbrella and the pole the umbrella mounts in down the hill basically walking on the road and getting over every 5 seconds for cars going up the hill. I finally got set up and of course my wifi box decided it was not going to communicate with my tablet, which means every frame had to be fired from the camera button which oft times will add the possibility of the tripod moving ever so little. I am happy with the shot but If I had been able to use my tablet to fire the camera and flash, I could have gone across the street to add light. I really wanted to have light glowing out from the windows, which I would have accomplished by putting my flash on full power on the opposite side and sending light through the windows across the interior and out the windows you can see. The other thing that helped was it was fairly cold and flurries were flying all day which helped keep the road a little snowy instead of bare blacktop.

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