Day 131 of 365 - The Bablake Old School!

Welcome to day 131 of 365 (Finished image after Editing)

The original photo was taken early this evening. It is of the old (first) Bablake school building in Coventry. The building dates back to the 14th century and was originally built to house priests of the adjacent St John's church (see my post from 27th April for details of the Church). Bablake School was founded in this building by Queen Isabella who gave the land for the School as well as the Church. This makes the school one of the oldest still functioning Schools in England. There have been expansions to this site over the years including land being granted to the school by Edward, the Black Prince (Queen Isabella's Grandson). The school was rebuilt in 1560. This building remained as the site of Bablake School until the 1890s when Bablake began to move to its current site in Coundon Road about a Mile away.

The building is classed as a Grade I listed building. The building is number 10 on my list of 19 (Grade I) Listed buildings in Coventry that I hope to photograph.

As always the shot was taken with my iPhone 5. The photo was taken using the camera App ExposerGL for iPhone. The original image can be found here: Unedited original Image.

First of all I used a filter from the app ExposerGL called Miami Sunset, this was to give the sky a golden look. Next I used an app called Dynamic Light to brighten up the building a little using the Normal preset. I then used an app called Mystic to crop the image into a square and add a filter called El Paso. Finally I used my old favorite Distressed FX to add extra texture to the image using the Cole overlay and the Lazarus Texture.