Mock-up

Almost there with the photos for the new guidebook for Cullen Auld Kirk.

I've been trying (and mostly managing) to stay out of discussions on layout  etc. While I was away, though, the author passed on a suggestion from the printer that we should use a full-page portrait-oriented shot of the church for the front cover. This was not what I'd had in mind: I'd already supplied a choice landscape shots to use on the front, and as a low, wide building it really doesn't lend itself to portrait. (Not to mention the constraints of the graveyard wall that limits shooting positions.)

The sun came out this morning (the author also wants a "bright" coloured shot) and I dashed over to the churchyard to see what I could do. The shot you see here was taken standing on a ladder, leaning over the churchyard wall from the outside. I darkened and desaturated the top and bottom areas, and I've layered some text on that to show how it might look.

Now off to meet the author...