[Zig]

A prophetic little pic, I thought. Ruscombe Village, a wee jog away from C.Z; 50mm f8

[shuttertalk]

Looks great, Zig! Looks like something out of the bible... like a city facing judgment from God's wrath...

Is this with an IR filter or post processsed? Can we see the original?

[Irma]

Beautiful picture.... Very nice detail... Your post processing works very well... It looks as if only the village were lit by a big reflector...

[Zig]

Thank you guys.
Spot on Jules; I'd had lots of "things"(in the Christian sense) happening to do with God's plan for my area, my church; this seemed to capture the tone of a dream I had(assure you I'm not going nuts btw!)
Here's the original, done straight from raw as lo-quality, no sharpening or nuffink!
The light was seasonal rather than filtered; a polariser brings it out.
My "process" for that IR feel is to start from(in this instance) a low-contrast, standard-saturation unsharpened jpeg which looks awful.
I then use the channel mixer in mono "16-bit" to really pull down the blue; I then ease up green until well-lit greens are rendered light grey, careful to keep the dark sky from my pulling down the blue channel.
Thus, I have a muddy mono mash...but burn away and dodge before sharpening.

[Zig]

Omegawsh...terribly sorry about the huge blat there...acting in haste :o

[Zig]

:x ..and it was the wrong one! Taken at same time though, so conditions stet!

[Petographer]

Very nice photo. The night scene is a great choice for a picture. Too bad there wasn't a church steeple sticking out amungst the houses.