barn crop

lynnma · February 15, 2004

how would you crop this barn please..

lynnma · February 15, 2004

or should it have been this...

GREAPER · February 15, 2004

I think they are both pretty cool as is.

Great rustic look to them.

You might want to try them in B & W just to see how they look.

wxwax · February 15, 2004

Lynn, they're pretty tight as is, not a lot of room to crop.

Shakey · February 15, 2004

wxwax wrote:

Lynn, they're pretty tight as is, not a lot of room to crop.

I agree with the crop Nazi

Shakey ...Looks both ways ,ducks ,and runs for the hills screaming like a girl.

wxwax · February 16, 2004

ian408 · February 16, 2004

lynnma wrote:

how would you crop this barn please..

Not much to crop. But these buildings, up close, present a challenge.
I like to shoot the window and door openings. Leaving some form of the
building's as a border.

In the second shot, the angle is low and makes an already large building
seem somewhat overwhelming. For that low angle, I like to play around
with extreme wide angle so that large objects have some room to move
around in the frame.

Try shooting the same barn from farther away. Use a telephoto if you
need to. Also try picking features of the barn to photograph. Maybe
flowers or weeds?

You could try something like this.

or maybe this

Ian

wxwax · February 16, 2004

Pssssst! Lynn....

knary · February 16, 2004

I like what Ian has said.

In the top image, I would have left more sky, and, more importantly, given the right edge of the building some room from the right edge of the photo. Think of the shapes and tones and lines as paths that lead your eye around the image. The expanding thrust pulls our eye to the right in the photo, but we're left at that weird unresolved edge. Those kinds of edges can be good things, but also tricky. As there are several of those barely snipped pieces at the edge, the image loses its power.

I the second image, the simplicity gives it a pleasant strength. I might shoot it again, but rotate the camera 90 degrees. Show some of the ground, give the barn something substantial to sit on - that will lend a further sense of weight.

If you want to practice your compositional skills, I can't think of anything better than overpasses and bridges - though I don't know if those can be found where you are. The shapes become so abstract that you can't worry about capturing details.

knary · February 16, 2004

Another way to train your eye is to use photoshop (or similar). Take photos that have many interesting shapes in them (the overpasses would work well here) and some room to work - high resolution, some big empty spaces as well as those shapes. Then crop them again and again in different ways. The aim is to find what kinds of compositions feel best to you and to train your eye to see objects as shapes, not just for what they are. Think big vs. small, tight vs open, dark vs. light, etc. Have fun with the photos.

I hope none of this has come off as too patronizing.

lynnma · February 16, 2004

[I hope none of this has come off as too patronizing.[/QUOTE]Absolutely not!! this is the kind of input I need to hear... this is the stuff I want to learn.

wxwax · February 16, 2004

knary wrote:

I hope none of this has come off as too patronizing.

No, just patronizing enough.

:andy

knary · February 16, 2004

wxwax wrote:

No, just patronizing enough.

:andy

I'm still voting for you for President.

knary · February 16, 2004

lynnma wrote:

[I hope none of this has come off as too patronizing.

Absolutely not!! this is the kind of input I need to hear... this is the stuff I want to learn.

[/QUOTE]

:
Keep posting stuff. Comments from the peanut gallery are almost always helpful - if only so you can figure out who to ignore.

(so why isn't there a plain ol' smiley emoticon?)

lynnma · February 16, 2004

knary wrote:

Absolutely not!! this is the kind of input I need to hear... this is the stuff I want to learn.

:
Keep posting stuff. Comments from the peanut gallery are almost always helpful - if only so you can figure out who to ignore.

(so why isn't there a plain ol' smiley emoticon?)[/QUOTE]

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