Printable View
Old barn + misty morning = excellent subject for a photo! :)
I applied two of my own textures, "Glass film texture" which I converted to B&W, and "Aging Effects 3" from Shadowhouse Creations. The overall effect has a more vivid color tone than my usual work, but I like it. I also applied a blur overlay to soften the image a bit.
Any comments and suggestions would be most appreciated!
Beautiful composition, Christopher. You have captured the mood very nicely. The texture and the treatment really makes this such an excellent composition. TFS.
I like the warm tint to this image and the slightly more yellow tone. Nice use of textures.
This image does not work for me as well as your other barn images. I would like to see the barn either larger--cropping all around--or smaller with more landscape included. For some reason I'm not getting a feeling of mist but rather of flatness.
However, all this is personal preference.
Christopher, I like how you "aged" this one and the tone to it also. I wish the small tree was not in front of the barn. It looks as though this barn as been converted to a house?
I like the aging process to this one. The texture BG and the vignette is nice. I might tone down the white area on the lower level if it were mine.:)
Thanks everyone. Much appreciated!
Anita, I did try cropping closer and though it looked nice that way, it also changed the whole feel of the image and personally I like the feel of my original comp better.
Andrew, I agree with you regarding that tree; I've been thinking of possibly cutting it down.
The previous owner before us had an auto repair service and used the barn as his workshop. That's one of the reasons I always shoot the barn from the ends rather than the sides, because there are garage doors on the sides.
Hi Christopher, this barn seems like an old friend... I like the composition as is, I think it is nicely balanced. That one tree is troublesome, but I would dig it up and move it rather than cutting it down. I must admit I'm a tree-hugger. :cool: I agree that a little more fog would heighten the moody look, maybe with the Nik fog filter.
Thanks Kerry. Digging up the tree would be difficult if not impossible because it's right in the middle of the stone wall.
I'll add my 2 cents worth re the tree. :-) If it is the middle of a stone wall, it will eventually destroy the wall, which would be a shame. Sometimes we have to cut down a tree--exotic that doesn't belong, volunteer growing in wrong place, etc. When we do so, we plant a sapling to replace it, maybe even two saplings. A poorly placed tree will eventually have to come down.
Anita, this stone wall is very old and rundown, not much more than a rough pile of stones all overgrown with vegetation so I don't think the tree would end up destroying it. It's one of a number of old stone walls on our property, because back when the area was all open farmland stone walls like these marked the fields and such.
I know New England stone walls from the years I lived in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Too bad this one is falling apart.Quote:
Originally Posted by Christopher Miller
