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My First Barn
My First Barn
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Challenge: Something New II (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix 3800
Location: Country Road One
Date: May 9, 2004
Aperture: 4.8
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/340
Galleries: Landscape, Architecture
Date Uploaded: May 9, 2004

Okay, this was taken on County Road 1, a road I had seen before but never taken. So the road is new to me. I have never shot an old barn before, I have seen them, looked at them but never really found one that caught my eye. There was another one on this road but there was a big blue sign in front of it that I didn't want to have tc clone out. As it is, I cloned out a newspaper box that was in front of this barn.

I cropped, used the channel mixer to remove all but the green channel, used the hue and saturation, sharpened, hue and saturation again and then a soft focus overall to give it the aged look and bumped up the contrast a bit.

Hope you like it

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/16/2004 11:42:36 PM
FYI - just because it was your first, doesn't make it new. and despite that, the challenge was supposed to be about photographing something for the first time. somehow i doubt this was the first shot you took of your own barn. but i'm not docking points, just sayin'
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05/16/2004 08:55:25 PM
very nice in sepia...this angle is OK but I would have move just a bit more to either side and pulled back just a little so that the right side of the barn does not seem so crowed in the frame.
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05/15/2004 05:45:05 AM
I like the sepia and good detail the sky seems a bit bright though Nice image
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05/15/2004 12:10:51 AM
Nice toning. This works really well here.
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05/13/2004 12:36:55 AM
the sky is really blown out.
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05/12/2004 05:49:35 PM
The burnt-out sky is such an obvious problem here - and seems to be a simple case of dynamic range being unable to cope with the scene you wanted to capture - and the only solution? A different time of day, or different weather ... Also, I'm not completely certain about your framing of the image - those buildings to the left, cutting them off - perhaps you could have afforded to include more of the context here, rather than so blatantly concentrating on the barn alone? The cut off of those sheds unbalances the image a bit, for me.
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05/12/2004 03:50:17 PM
nice barn shot. I especially like the parked tractor
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05/11/2004 04:22:21 PM
Nice job with soft focus! Might be the lighting contributing to that but it still works. Good cropping and it looks good in sepia. Only problem are some vertical lines and curves on the dome of the silo have jaggies.
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05/10/2004 08:21:35 PM
Really nice composition. Good use of sepia. It's a bit overexposed. Notice the lack of details in the shadows. It would be nice to see more of that tractor, for instance. The sky is blown way out. I gave it a six.
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05/10/2004 07:00:12 PM
Nice soft colors, if the sky was more interesting it would've helped.
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05/10/2004 06:56:29 PM
I love it - nice effect with sepia toning!
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05/10/2004 05:10:13 PM
Seems a little overly bright on the top. There is no detail in the sky at all (may not have been or may have been clouds). That contrasts with the fine detail of the road and weeds to create a discontinuity that is a bit distracting.
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05/10/2004 01:21:22 AM
Overcast skies are always unfortunate but I think it goes with the sepia tone that you've chosen. It's a good shot, but I just dont get much wow factor from it. Compositions of large buildings from up close can be difficult, and I think you likely got the best angle of it that you could.
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