Practice with the 40mm lens

My copy of Un Sac de Billes arrived today, with a different cover to the one advertised on the Ebay listing. I specifically chose the one I did so it would be exactly the same as my French teacher’s. I hope it’s just the cover that’s different and not the page numbers.

I was going to Sainsburys in Haverhill so stopped off at Withersfield church for some practice. I just used my 40mm lens, to see how restrictive that was.

View towards the altar with my 40mm lens.
The view to the west. The sunlight through the windows was intense, so I created an HDR image from different exposures. It’s not a great solution, though, since all the pictures lacked colour information and detail. I could have done a bit more to improve local contrast here.
A carving of a mermaid. Again, intense light from the windows meant I thought this photo was ruined, but I was amazed how much I could rescue in post-processing. Perhaps the background is too blue.