Interesting photo, Jack. The setting and composition are classical and beautifully done. The tree doesn't intrude to my eye, it poses a reasonable amount of foreground framing. The color balance is a little warm for me, but that could be monitor settings or just my taste vs yours. I like the way the shapes of the barn are mirrored in the shapes of the mountain range beyond it, it's certainly a "calendar" or "postcard" worthy photo. This web-rez version has a little bit of sharpening halo here and there, I'm sure your finish print doesn't.
The problem I have with it is that with the warm tones and shapes being very similar, the barn's outline and details tends to merge with the background of mountains to some degree. If you reduce it to B&W with a simple desaturate, you can see what I mean very clearly. I find that if I use the channel mixer and hit the Red channel a lot higher, the background lightens and the barn stands out better and echoes the mountains without merging. This says to me that just a little bit of light-shaping, to soften or lighten the backdrop mountains in the realm of the barn, would enhance the subject isolation. Might be something to experiment with if you have a mind to. It's a lovely shot, I'd certainly like to see its innate qualities retained or enhanced if nothing else. Godfrey On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:46 PM, Jack Davis wrote: > ...Early on a semi cloudy morning. I've often wondered if I should > have > included so much of the tree on the left.(?) > LX, and I believe an A-28~80 f/3.5-4.5. (don't recall film)..not > Velvia. > > http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=191 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
