Mission Espada II

For some reason I decided to re-process an old photo today, and I finally decided on one that I took on the 14th of September of Mission Espada here in San Antonio (for my previous post back in September, please click here). I am not sure why exactly I decided on this shot but I am quite happy with the results of reprocessing it. I took this shot with the original lens that came with my T1i camera, so it is not nearly as sharp as my newer photos, but I still think that it ended up looking pretty good.

I desaturated the end result using a two step method in Silver Efex Pro, first I used a slightly extra amount of desaturation using the normal black and white, then I added the Antique Plate setting, which gives it the slightly ghosted look around the edges. I thought about making the effect stronger at first and although it looked pretty neat, I settled on this mix of the results for my post.

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Mission Espada II