Country Church in Snow

[JFisher14]

This is a picture of a country church taken during a snow storm. The snow almost makes it a monotone picture, but the stop sign gives it a little color. My question... should l leave the stop sign in as well as the telephone poles and wires. If I remove them, the picture could look like it was taken many years ago. If I leave them in, there would be some color to the picture and would help show how strong the storm was. Any suggestions and comments would be greatly appreciated. I am thinking about entering this in a small photo contest.

Camera Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture f/11.0
Focal Length 90 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire
X-Resolution 240 dpi
Y-Resolution 240 dpi
Orientation Horizontal (normal)
Software Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Date and Time (Modified) 2011:02:07 21:51:37

[dvtldav]

First off nice shot. I like the picture with the snow.
As for critiquing the first thing I would do is straighten the picture as the church is tilted. Then I would crop out the power lines, pole, stop sign and as much of the road as possible. To me those things as nothing to the photo in fact the road tends to draw me away from the church. Crop from the right side to just get rid of the pole and from the bottom to try and get rid of the rest of the road and in my opinion it will look better. Also you might try a light vignette around the edge to see how that looks.

Dave

[lerabu]

I agree with the above poster.

Also in terms of colour maybe you can try tweaking the exposure or the histogram so that the grays become clipped and the snoow thus becomes white.

You would need to perhaps copy the sky into a new layer to keep it gray and then merge the layers.

Nice shot!