The Barn

[Slider]

One from my travels today.

D70s with Sigma 10-20 at 10mm
1/200 f/11 Iso 200

[pharmer]

Nice composition and exposure.

Love the green long grass and the moody grey sky - GND filter on that? Or blended exposure?

[Bob G]

Nice Shot Mark

Out of interest - where was that taken


Bob G

[avkomp]

love the exposure.

lots of grass doesnt do it for me though. I liked it more pano cropped from the bottom removing some grass.

Well done.

steve

[Slider]

Nice composition and exposure.

Love the green long grass and the moody grey sky - GND filter on that? Or blended exposure?

Thanks Pharmer, blended the sky in as it was all blown with the foreground nicely exposed.

Nice Shot Mark

Out of interest - where was that taken


Bob G

Thanks Bob, it was on the Gympie-Brooloo Road about 12k from Imbil. Passed it a hundred times and keep saying to myself that I must get a shot of that old barn, so I did

[Slider]

love the exposure.

lots of grass doesnt do it for me though. I liked it more pano cropped from the bottom removing some grass.

Well done.

steve

Thanks Steve,

I pondered over a pano crop but decided to leave it full. I quite like all the grass in front.

[Oneputt]

Ah I know where that is. Mitedo and I photographed that when we first got our D70s. Nice job Mark.

[Slider]

At Steve's suggestion here is another one which had the barbed wire fence in front and came up well as a pano crop

[Alpha_7]

I really like the second image and I think it really works as a Pano, nicely done! Good blending too!

[blacknstormy]

Mark - missed this till now - love the first shot, but Pano is even better !!!!
Beautiful job (as always) - would look fantastic in a rustic frame ....
Rel

[Alex]

Very nice. I prefer the pano version.

Alex

[Slider]

Thanks again Folks,

I think Steve was right. The more I look at teh two, the more I am liking the pano. Might have to do an old fence paling frame for this one

[Zeeke]

Mark, another brilliant shot, ive seen this barn hundreds of times while going to Borumba Dam... its one thing id always like to photograph.. but the folks im travelling with dont want to stop for 10mins.. I had a play with your image while im waiting for my ride north to show up.. again.. all i did was play with the curves...i dont know why.. but i always like making images moody.. sorry heh



Tim

[Finch]

Mark,

Like Rel, I also missed this one and I must say it is a corker! I love the feel of it, the composition and the great angle achieved by that workhorse of yours, the 10-20mm lens.

Pano is great and definitely will work blown up BIG with a rustic timber frame (as others have said).

Another contender for the POTW, I'd say

Cheers

Michael

[drifter]

I love the first one .Great composition . Cool . Lovely colour .

[Neeper]

I love the mood of this photo. It's awesome.

[mitedo]

Great shot Mark i like the last one very moody

[gstark]

Works better as a pano for me.

In the first, there's too much foreground, which I think is competing with the barn as the primary subject of the image. The pano addresses that problem.

The EXIF is saying that this was shot at 10mm, but I'm not getting that feeling from the image. I'm wondering how a reshoot of this might go, but taken, again at 10mm, but moving a little closer. One of the beauties of shooting that wide is that you should be able to make the subject apppear relatively large against a distant background, and I'm wondering how (or even if) that might even improve this image further.

[pharmer]

I'm going to pipe up and say I prefer the original over the pano's.

Removing the long green grass has taken away a lot of the interest in the photo from my perspective. (I loved the way the green grass stalks contrasted againt the sky)

Can't please everyone eh?

[Slider]

Thanks again for the comments Folks

Gary, I'll definately be taking a few more next time I'm up there.

[gstark]

Can't please everyone eh?

And that, IMHO, is a good thing.

[mudder]

I prefer the pano version but then again losing the grass in the foreground seems to leave the old barn needing something as additional interest, I think it's just the side of the barn having little detail other than the water tanks... Wondering about perhaps including the front verandah in the shot?

Might also be tempted to do some judicial burning of the grass in front of the barn to make the barn look like it's in a "spot" of light sort of thing, as though the sun is breaking through a gap in the clouds or something maybe? Just thinking about adding "mood"...

Have a thing for old stuff like this and enjoyed the image, thanks for posting...

[byrt_001]

hi

both are great shots, personaly i like the first one for the details on the grass.

thanks


christian

[Bretski]

Nice pic Mark

I really like the green grass in contrast to the rest of the pic...

I reakon it would look great if you make everything black and white except the grass...