Mission San José Photo

Photographer’s Note

Mission San José, San Antonio, Texas

One of the five Spanish missions in the San Antonio area. These missions were founded in the early 19th century, where in contrast to the California mission system which began in the last third of the 18th century. Both mission systems were founded on the same principals and by the same religious order. Only one of the Texas missions gained any notoriety, The Alamo. From the Alamo, in downtown San Antonio, south the missions are; Mission Concepción, Mission San José, Mission San Juan, and Mission Espada. The US Park Service had taken over administration of the four missions south of the Alamo for preservation. The four missions are still parish churches and mass is said everyday.

Since this was a scan I had a lot of noise introduced into the beautiful blue sky and I used Neat Image v5.6 to reduce the noise.

carper, pboehringer, stego, leo61, Floydian, feather, jhm, john_c, jaywalker, plimrn has marked this note useful

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Paolo (40763) 2006-12-25 13:57

Hi John, good view of that old and famous Mission.
good light and POV and good composoition.
thanks, and Merry Xmas and happy new year, ciao

pboehringer (770) 2006-12-25 16:20

The digital quality of this picture is compromised without any doubt by the scanning process, but there is so much more to look than just the digital quality. I like the iclusion of the blooming plant in the fg contrasting with the mission belltower. The blue sky contrast beautifully with the white blossoms.
What was the purpose of 2-Stop Soft ND Grad filter?
Great note! I learned something about the differences between the californian and texanian missions. Yes, the Alamo is famous. Hollywood didn't miss to educate us.
Greetings, Peter

stego (22500) 2006-12-25 20:23

Hi John,
Very nice pov and excelent dof. It's a pitty that the scan isn't better (colors lack life and definition could be better), as I bet that the original is even more impressive.
Congratulations.
TFS, Regards, José.

leo61 (44112) 2006-12-26 3:21

Hi John!
A well composed photo with this nice plant as foreground for the interesting architecture and a great contrast with the nice sky.
Regards,Leo

carper (66132) 2006-12-26 3:25

very nice shot John,
nice composition with a good pov and a fine light, good details and well framed, very good job.
gr. jaap

Floydian (30970) 2006-12-26 6:15

Hi John,
Very interesting note. The picture gives a good feeling in combination with that.
I like the green and blue tones, normally they do not fit together without any other colors, but here it's working perfect.
Good pov in a low angle position...very nice.
Regards, Henk

feather (50560) 2006-12-26 9:35

Well composed from a low POV to include that huge architectural plant which balances the tower perfectly in the frame. The NI seems to have worked on the noise as the sky looks great.
Seasons greetings to you and your family.
Kath

jmcl (14183) 2006-12-26 10:17

John,

Beautiful image .. the way the trees on the outside frame it, the way the yuccas layer together in the foreground, as Peter mentioned .. the plant contrasting the bell tower .. the soft stone between the masses of blue and green .. the blues are just wonderful ...

take care,

John

vincz (19075) 2006-12-26 12:31

Very well composed. Thecolours are intersting even if we feel degradation due to the scan. But the overall atmiosphere you catched is great. Cngratulations!

Davidwh (3654) 2006-12-27 12:57

Hi John,
An interesting perspective crouching behind this interesting looking plant.It really stands out in the image.Well done in coping with the noise as the sky has come out great.A good cut and composition and I like how the greens frame the impressive mission.Maybe a touch lacking in contrast.Good stuff...happy holidays.
Regards, David

cdmonson (2783) 2006-12-27 15:56

Hi John:

This is a nice shot of the Mision San Jose. You were lucky the grass was so green--it was quite brown when I was there in May. I like the perspective with the plants in the foreground. They give a Southwestern flavor to it. Thanks for sharing.

Clark

jhm (83786) 2006-12-28 6:56

Hi John,

For a scanning picture give these very well colours it's very difficult but these is very well, a nice composed photo with this nice plant as foreground, good light and POV and good composoition. Tfs.
Happy New Year and good health for 2007

Best regards,
John.

john_c (24635) 2007-01-02 11:44

Hi John,
A well chosen POV, with the light and shadows playing nicely on the foreground plants. Despite the scan, the details are well seen and the essence of the beautifiul blue sky is still appreciated. All the best in the New Year, John.
John

bazal (7898) 2007-01-19 9:37

Hi John.

Incredible colors for this one. The foreground with the yucca plant is great and it makes the composition both dynamic and original. The architecture of the mission is interesting but the sky is so blue that it appears silghtly blueish as well. Maybe a very slight color pp could have corrected that.

Thanks for sharing!

jaywalker (12415) 2007-01-19 16:17

Hi John, A great POV looking through the plants, excellent composition, i have problems with colour & quality when i scan, however the colours are not to bad at all & it dose not lack much quality, you still have very good light & the framing is superb, kind regards Wilson.

rbcy1974 (20746) 2007-02-23 7:31

Hello John
Great point of view and great composition,
the plant on the foreground contributes to the overall depth of the landscape,
very well done
Regards
Daniel

plimrn (19872) 2009-03-05 21:43

Hi John,
This appeared in random and I could not resist the excellent framing; I love the view of the mission over the yucca.
HLJ, Pat