I’m not normally one for architectural shots. Sure, I take the odd shot of landmarks on holiday, but I’m never happy with them, because they’re almost always shots that have been hundreds of times before, and better executed.

This morning, as I was waiting for my new coffee place to open, I looked up, and saw this wonderful sky and building. I then completely shocked myself by checking that I was square on to try and ensure that when I straightened the shot in Lightroom, that the verticals didn’t go wonky.

All I did to the shot was rotate it a tiny bit, crop the edges, and bumped up the blue saturation as I don’t have a polarizer at the moment.

Actually, this is one of the side effects I’ve found from using Lightroom - I used to nearly always use Photoshop on every shot, but now I try and avoid using Photoshop as much as possible. This means I’m limited to using the small set of image correction tools in Lightroom, which has, in turn, meant that I’m more careful when taking shots. In addition to having a nice end to end workflow, Lightroom is also cutting down my processing time as my shots need less processing.