Looking Up 2

[Christopher Miller]

Took some more shots looking upward at the barn side this morning. I shot this one with a shallow DOF. Is this an improvement over the last shot I posted? Any C&C are welcome!

Olympus SP-550 UZ
f5.6 @ 1/200, ISO 100, -0.3 EV
Aperture priority mode, pattern metering, auto WB
Processed in PS CS2; rotated a bit to straighten, cropped, curves adjustment, selectively darkened the top, converted to B&W with channel mixer and hue/saturation layer, and added a slight vignette to burn edges

[denise ippolito]

Christopher, You've got good sharpness where needed. The conversion looks good! Might crop the top a bit. You really are workin' it!!

[Julie Kenward]

Chris, if you do this again, move your camera so the front part is in the right corner and the band goes diagonally across the frame a bit more. Might make for an interesting image that way as well!

I do like this one better than the last one...better conversion and more DOF. Nice!

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks for the comments! I will certainly try this again, I'm finding it to be such an interesting subject!