old shed

[Christi V]

shutter 1/60
apt 5.6
iso1600
lens EF 18-55mm

[Hill Country Hack]

Christi,

Nice image. You may get a better response with a specific question want answered and give your thoughts/backstory as to what you were trying to accomplish.

[Christi V]

oops ok.. i guess what do you like about it.. exposure, composition etc.....
Story... went out to see what building were still standing at a ranch my grandfather owned in the early 40's ...

[Hill Country Hack]

Compsition- I personally like the old growth tree in the foreground as it adds interest for me, as does the branch leaning on it from camera left. If the windows are the subject of your image, placing them in the lower third was good. The pine cone? on the lower camera right of the cabin almost look like eyes and distract me just a bit. I miss where the trunk of the tree in the foreground meets the ground.

Exposure- I'm not an exposure pro, but it looks a bit underexposed to me.

The image as a whole just seems a bit flat, without depth.

Why did you choose f5.6 and the high ISO for a landscape? Were you handholding and not using a tripod? Landscapes generally don't move, so using a smaller apeture (F8 or f11) to increase your DOF and a lower ISO to decrease the digital noise requires a tripod.

There are others out there with better critique skills than I who will hopefully respond. Keep at it.

[Liz Caldwell]

I like the overall composition, but I think focal point might be off... It looks to me like the sharpest point might be in the light part of the tree...

Mind if I play with the image a bit? I'd like to see how it would look as a painting

[Christi V]

Liz.. be my guest..

I was holding the camera....and in the bushes....I will try to remember smaller apature and iso next time.. thank you

[wulf]

Is this straight from camera? That would suggest two things to me that can be done after the fact. One is to tweak the colours and contrast, which could take it anywhere from warm and welcoming to menacing and dark and also on a range between colourful and faux-antique. Whichever path, I think some further development could make more of it.

Also, I imagine the original image is fairly large, so you have scope for cropping. Since your focus doesn't really make the most of the tree as the subject, how about losing a fair chunk off the left of the image and using the trunk to frame that side? You could also use the horizontal branches as a frame at the top and that would bring the view close enough to see if there is anything intriguing in the windows.

Wulf

ps. only one shot for critique per day please - I've dropped the other two threads you started shortly before this as they hadn't yet got any responses.

[crockny]

+1 for Wulf ... there's too much foreground tree for me -- I think losing a lot of the left would give more focus on the old shed, and make it more intriguing ... right now it's kinda lost ...

[Christi V]

Wulf.. not sure what you mean by

One is to tweak the colours and contrast, which could take it anywhere from warm and welcoming to menacing and dark and also on a range between colourful and faux-antique. Whichever path, I think some further development could make more of it.

I brought up another one in PS and got the tree to the side and did tweek the colors.... not understanding what you mean by range between Faux-antique....?? PS4 does so much i am not famular with all the functions of the program.. but still trying to learn it... TY

May I post the other one again?

[wulf]

Originally Posted by Christi V

not understanding what you mean by range between Faux-antique....??

From the top left, clockwise: warm, cold, colourful, faux antique. All done with some simple manipulations using the Gimp. I can't tell you how to do the equivalent on PS but it will be easy. My point is that you have a vast range of options for how to develop your image with a post-processing package.

BTW, you can post another critique thread now if you want (the rule is only one per 24 hours) or, if it relates to this image, you could add it in to the discussion here. The rule is to prevent an over enthusiastic newcomer flooding the area, squashing other people's requests for critique out of the way and, in all likelihood, never actually following up the comments people make on any of their photos.

Wulf