Day 159 of 365 - Looking up!

Welcome to day 159 of 365 (Finished image after Editing)

The original photo was taken while waiting to pick up my daughter from Choir this afternoon. It is an image of the Tower of the Old St Michael's Cathedral in the Cathedral Quarter of Coventry. The Gothic Tower and Spire above make up the main part of the ruins of the Old Cathedral of Coventry. This building was the second of Coventry's three Cathedral's and was changed from it's original role of Parish Church to Cathedral status in 1918. The Cathedral was nearly destroyed during the first Blitz on Coventry, which took place on 14th November 1940. It was the most powerful air raid to have hit any city and lasted for about Nine hours. While the Old Cathedral was bombed quite early on during the air raid, it was the fires that the incendiary bombs started that actually destroyed the building.

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 the app Dynamic Light to edit the image with the Realistic Sky preset. This was to brighten up the overall tone of the picture. Next I used the app ShockMyPic to help make the image a little more painterly. After that I use Distressed FX to add extra texture to the image using the Stirred overlay and Cedar Texture. Finally I used an app called Camera Genius to add a Silver Paint style Picture Frame to the picture.