Virginia barn

TonyCooper

Last day in Virginia on vacation, and it was overcast and dark all day.
Not much in the way of color in the scene itself, so I processed this in sepia.

Carmelo75

Nice processing, the sepia tint works very well here. I really like the texture of the roof and the horses on the dark background...

Carmelo.

Nikonic1

I like that you left the tree to the left in the frame. It matches well being almost at a perfect right angle with the roof line of the barn. The sepia processing adds a nice effect too. Nice capture.

Azzaro

Good shot Tony...... Sepia works well with that subject....

woellerd

I like the sepia too. Well composed shot and quite peaceful.

Dogdots

I just love this photo. The two horse's in the barn and I know its not a house, but in the trees to the right -- it looks like an old 2 or 3 story house engulfed with trees. Only a window showing through. Am I the only one who see's that

Richard

Dogdots wrote:

I just love this photo. The two horse's in the barn and I know its not a house, but in the trees to the right -- it looks like an old 2 or 3 story house engulfed with trees. Only a window showing through. Am I the only one who see's that

Yes, I think you may be right. I was focused on the horses the first time I looked and didn't even notice. Thanks for pointing this out.

TonyCooper

Dogdots wrote:

I just love this photo. The two horse's in the barn and I know its not a house, but in the trees to the right -- it looks like an old 2 or 3 story house engulfed with trees. Only a window showing through. Am I the only one who see's that

I don't think so. Here's the image, uncropped and right out of the camera (but converted to .jpg from RAW). The sepia treatment makes it a bit more difficult to see the detail in the trees since all the green is now one color.

One nice thing about sepia is that I didn't have to clone out that bright blue object to the right of the barn.

Dogdots

Hmmmmm.......it does and it doesn't look like there's a house there. If you ever go out that way again...take a drive up that road if you can That will get you on the other side of the trees.

Sepia did save you from having to crop out that blue object

Thanks for posting it in color

TonyCooper

Dogdots wrote:

Hmmmmm.......it does and it doesn't look like there's a house there. If you ever go out that way again...take a drive up that road if you can That will get you on the other side of the trees.

Sepia did save you from having to crop out that blue object

Thanks for posting it in color

I live in Orlando, Florida. The barn is near Woolwine, Virginia...about 700 miles from here just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. We spent Thanksgiving week in a cabin in Woolwine.

I don't remember a house in the background, but I really wasn't paying attention to that.

Dogdots

TonyCooper wrote:

I live in Orlando, Florida. The barn is near Woolwine, Virginia...about 700 miles from here just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. We spent Thanksgiving week in a cabin in Woolwine.

I don't remember a house in the background, but I really wasn't paying attention to that.

Guess driving down the road to take a look isn't an option

I know about the not paying a attention part. I do that a lot and then when I get home and look at my photos I see something I might of wanted to take a closer look at.

It will remain a mystery

DonRicklin

It does seem from the second posted uncropped full color version that there might actually be something there.

The other strange thing for me in the original sepia version is how the back door make it look like an unsupported pillar is dividing the big open door due to the monotone of the elements.

Don

TonyCooper

DonRicklin wrote:

It does seem from the second posted uncropped full color version that there might actually be something there.

The other strange thing for me in the original sepia version is how the back door make it look like an unsupported pillar is dividing the big open door due to the monotone of the elements.

Don

There is an open doorway on the back. I thought about painting that black so it doesn't show, but I dunno.

DonRicklin

TonyCooper wrote:

There is an open doorway on the back. I thought about painting that black so it doesn't show, but I dunno.

Maybe not black, but open up the interior darks a bit or tone the grass in that doorway down some so that it is not the same tonal level as the wal above or the concrete blocks.

I don't get quite the same illusion with orignal shot, only the sepia one.

Don