{"id":3038,"date":"2011-02-19T12:28:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2011-06-24T19:15:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T23:15:44","slug":"first-congressional-church-shrewsbury-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/3038\/first-congressional-church-shrewsbury-ma","title":{"rendered":"First Congressional Church; Shrewsbury, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I decided to use the beautiful steeple of this church to play around with rustic texturing, since it’s been a while since my last such post. \u00a0I was purposely trying to be a little off in the composition, but strayed a bit too far (or not far enough) for my liking on most of the shots. \u00a0Still, there is something about the off-balanced second shot that grabs me–the lower half of the frame is perfectly in-line, but the top half appears to be falling out of view. \u00a0It’s an inconsistency I was striving for, but a lack of proper execution that led to most looking more like bad photography than artful rebellion.<\/p>\n

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So I decided to use the beautiful steeple of this church to play around with rustic texturing, since it’s been a while since my last such post. \u00a0I was purposely trying to be a little off in the composition, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[187,398,308,719,616,206,718],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-photography","tag-buildings","tag-churches","tag-clocktowers","tag-first-congressional-church","tag-massachusetts","tag-rustic","tag-shrewsbury-ma"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t