This is a very “fresh” photo, just out of Steffi‘s cam­era (a trusty old Nikon Coolpix 5700, but it does shoot RAW). We went over to the Post Primary School again to help paint, clean, trans­form and pre­pare the old gym­nas­ium in it for use as a meet­ing place of the Maynooth Com­munity Church.

As it was a sunny day today (for a change) the sun was shin­ing beau­ti­fully through the win­dows in the roof, cre­at­ing those inter­est­ing shad­ows with the sup­port beams. So I grabbed a lad­der went to one side of the hall and took a photo from as high up as pos­sible to get this per­spect­ive shot, some­what com­press­ing the view with a tad of zoom.

Since the small cam­era has not the best optics, I cor­rec­ted some of its defects (rather strong bar­rel dis­tor­tion and chro­matic aber­ra­tions) in Pho­toshop, with the really use­ful Lens Cor­rec­tion tool (it’s hid­den in Fil­ters -> Dis­tort). A bit of mess­ing around with the tone curve as well as the sat­ur­a­tion of some of the col­ours plus the usual vign­ette (thanks John for addict­ing me to them through your won­der­ful Pho­toWalk­through pod­cast…) and I got this picture.