Ootischenia Farm

I like this Katherine. I really enjoy the old buildings and I love the overall tone of this. It has a nice feel to me. I always think about what all went on here when I see scenes like this. It looks like a beautiful area too. Getting a little tired of the snow here now also, about another 5" of wet heavy snow today. It was pretty this morning however. Nice work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Very pleasant winter scene. I really like the comp., and theway the browns and whites work together. It has a painterly quality.

This is a very warm image for shooting in the cold. I like the repeat of color in the old wood and the tree branches. Nicely done

This is really beautiful Katherine - I love the soft look and the subtle colours and I feel no need for more foreground - it works very well as is.
Out of interest - you mention a blue tarp (which I can't see at all) and using control points to take it down - but I'm not sure what you mean by this. There's always so many ways to achieve something in PP and so many ways to describe it, but am interested to know more...

Thanks to all (Nick, Richard, Nancy adn Lizzie) for the kind comments. I too love these old buildings, and its nice to find like minds on an internet site.

To answer the question from Lizzie regarding the blue tarp and control points, there is a blue tarp that is on the roof and it sticks out under the snow above the far left window and behind the tree there. It looks kind of a non-descript blue grey now. I used control points, something I am learning right now in Nic Efex to isolate the small blue patches, two of them, and use the hue slider to tone the blue down to a slate grey. There are lots of software packages out with control points now, and others here with better knowledge may be able to point out a few. There may even have been a tutorial or discussion on control points on this site???.

Control points allow you to change various pixel group characteristics in a designated spot (which you define with a changing diameter circle), including contrast, brightness, blue, red and green ranges in defined parts of your photograph, and thereby circumventing the method of masking out sections, which I always thoroughly disliked. I also turned up the pink on the birch and the yellow in the wood of the building, slightly.

Thanks for looking and responding, again.

Kat Enns

Beautiful image Kat. I especially like the subtle color and overall contrast of the scene. I too wondered about the blue tarp mentioedn. Thanks for your explanation below. I use some of the Nik software plug-ins... Silver Efex Pro, Define, and Sharpen.

Thanks Eva, for the kind words. The Control Points are on one of Nik favorites: Viveza 2. I also like the instant pixelation remover called Dfine 2. Magic. Finds it a kills it. So many phototgraphs, so little time.

Kat