Day 163 of 365 -Shops of Olde Spon Street!

Welcome to day 163 of 365 (Finished image after Editing)

The original photo was taken late this afternoon in Spon Street, Coventry City Centre. The image is of a few of the Medieval buildings that form the South side of Spon Street. What is unusual about a lot of these buildings is that although they of of Medieval origin, they formerly stood in other streets in area. The nearest building in the image, number 9, (the Jewellers) dates back to the 15th Century and originally stood in Much Park Street (near to Whitefriars Gate). The buildings furthest away in this image, numbers 14 and 15 are original to Spon Street. Just the same as with yesterday's image of Berkswell Church, this street was featured on TV yesterday (12th June) as part of an ITV Comedy/Drama series called 'Love And Marriage'. The series is based in and filmed around the Coventry area.

As always the shot was taken with my iPhone 5. The photo was taken using the camera App KitCam for iPhone. This app was one of two apps (the other being PhotoForge 2) made by the company GhostBird Software. The company has now just been purchased by Yahoo and will be bringing the GhostBird apps and editing technology to the Flickr team. The original image can be found here: Unedited original Image.

First of all I used the app Handy Photo to edit the image. The edits were made by cloning away a few street bollards and a waste bin. Next I used PhotoToaster to brighten up the image using the Add Flash preset, the Super Sharp FX, a Medium dark Vignette, the Canvas Texture and finally the black inset frame. I then used an app called Mextures to apply some extra lighting and textures to the image. This time I used a built-in Preset called Horace provided by Michael Tucker. After that I used ShockMyPic to help give the image an arty look. Finally I used Distressed FX to add extra texture to the image using the Stirred overlay and the Lade Texture.