Location : All Saints Church in Calbourne on the Isle of Wight.

We are very lucky to be near many lovely old churches on the island, and this parish church on the village green captured my attention as soon as I stepped inside. This church dates to medieval times and has a beautiful organ dating from 1873 by Forster and Andrews.

I do like the painterly look you get from the HDR process, a technique I find especially useful when photographing church interiors. In early morning light, All Saints Church was rather dark inside so I needed a full two minutes for the longest exposure and used Triggertrap to time it on Bulb.

This image was photographed using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkIII camera and a Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L lens. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the blue kneeler. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/11, ISO 100 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 13 exposures from 120 seconds down to 1/30th of a second in one-stop increments. The RAW processing, creating and saving of this 32-bit HDRI file was all done in Photoshop CC. The HDRI TIFF was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro 5. All final adjustments were done back in Photoshop CC.

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