Posted by Mark Hudon on December 31, 2006 at 7:32 PM
D2x
28-70mm lens at 27
f/8 @ 1/30
Anyone who has driven through Hood River on Tucker Rd up to Odell has driven right past this barn. I've been driving past it for the last 17 years and thought I'd stop today to take some photos.
I had a great day out today with Ozzy, our dog, we stopped three or four places and he got and was able to run around while I photographed. There were pretty good conditions for the photos I like to take, gray skies, cold and moody. I went out to the Syncline, shot some old houses nestled in the orchards in the Hood River Valley and a few different barns.
eh?
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on December 31, 2006 at 7:57 PM
I like it, Mark... except for the roof. The roof is indeed interesting in itself but I am more taken in by the image if you cropped down to a horizontal pano, to just below that upper window. Then I'm all over it...
Posted by Mark Hudon on December 31, 2006 at 8:00 PM
Minus the roof? How about the snow? I did a few details without either.
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on December 31, 2006 at 8:18 PM
Yeah, let's get rid of the snow and then let's minus the barn and then what do we end up with? Oops, just joking...
Actually, just the barn wall without roof or snow is also a good study. However, I kind of like the snow - it's untidy similar to the paint on the barn walls.
I'm not sure that there is a right or wrong in how you compose this image. It ends up being all personal taste, and I guess I've already expressed mine.
I think a close detail of the door would be interesting. I like the shot overall, but the roof and the snow add the least interest to the image for me. I like barn shots and abstracts like this, so I may be a bit biased toward this kind of image.
Posted by Mark Hudon on December 31, 2006 at 8:44 PM
How about this one?
Posted by Geoff Shapiro on December 31, 2006 at 8:53 PM
I do like that barn wall study, Mark. I wonder if you were to black out the windows in the background of the leftside window it it wouldn't balance things a bit better? And maybe a slight additional crop on the left to match the way the window frame of the window on the right looks?
Oh, now we're talkin'. I like the second one a great deal. I agree that you might want to black out the windows on the other side of the barn that are showing through, but I think I'd leave the crop the way it is. I like the lack of symmetry, IMHO of course.
Posted by Marc Adamus on December 31, 2006 at 9:35 PM
Both of them work for me.
Posted by Janet Bentley on January 1, 2007 at 12:02 AM
Mark, I love how the basic pattern of vertical lines and textures is interrupted by horizontal lines in the first posting. The fact that the horizontal of the roof line is meandering is just really cool. #2 is okay, but I find 1 to be more interesting.
Posted by Mark Windom on January 2, 2007 at 2:28 PM
I like both but prefer the first with just a sliver of snow showing at the base of the barn. If there wasn't the rust on the roof then I would say lose the roof but I kinda like it as is.
Posted by Simon Allenby on January 2, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Mark,
How about :-)? -- Third version, without the snow, include the roof, and clone out the gray pvc/metal pipe sticking up to the right of the door.
Regards, Simon
Posted by Mark Hudon on January 2, 2007 at 5:28 PM
Simon! Do you know how hard I worked to get that pipe just in that special spot? Don't you see the intrisic meaning of that pipe in relation to the rest of the photo?
Posted by Simon Allenby on January 2, 2007 at 5:39 PM
Mark,
The intrinsic importance of that gray pipe is intuitively obvious to even the most casual of observers; however, I know you march to the beat of a different drummer and wouldn't want to be like everyone else and keep the pipe in the image. As you already know by cloning it out you send the much more powerful message with its absence (i.e., the implied pipe).
Regards, Simon
Posted by Mark Hudon on January 2, 2007 at 6:59 PM
The implied pipe! Oh Simon, Simon, Simon, you are the master!
Posted by Mark Windom on January 2, 2007 at 10:45 PM
Geez, I never even saw the pipe. How about a fourth version with a little snow (get rid of the dirtiest part) and lose the pipe (the implied pipe works better for me)
Discussion
15 replies28-70mm lens at 27
f/8 @ 1/30
Anyone who has driven through Hood River on Tucker Rd up to Odell has driven right past this barn. I've been driving past it for the last 17 years and thought I'd stop today to take some photos.
I had a great day out today with Ozzy, our dog, we stopped three or four places and he got and was able to run around while I photographed. There were pretty good conditions for the photos I like to take, gray skies, cold and moody. I went out to the Syncline, shot some old houses nestled in the orchards in the Hood River Valley and a few different barns.
eh?
Actually, just the barn wall without roof or snow is also a good study. However, I kind of like the snow - it's untidy similar to the paint on the barn walls.
I'm not sure that there is a right or wrong in how you compose this image. It ends up being all personal taste, and I guess I've already expressed mine.
How about :-)? -- Third version, without the snow, include the roof, and clone out the gray pvc/metal pipe sticking up to the right of the door.
Regards, Simon
The intrinsic importance of that gray pipe is intuitively obvious to even the most casual of observers; however, I know you march to the beat of a different drummer and wouldn't want to be like everyone else and keep the pipe in the image. As you already know by cloning it out you send the much more powerful message with its absence (i.e., the implied pipe).
Regards, Simon