Maine Barn

[shadowraven]

Took this today during a snowstorm, obviously the RAW is clearer, but this is the photo. How to improve?

[Peter Zack]

Nice scene. A little tough to make the cabin stand out more but it has an old postcard look to it.

Maybe try a little sepia and vignette treatment? This isn't a great example because the image is small but you get the idea.

[FHPhotographer]

Originally Posted by shadowraven

Took this today during a snowstorm, obviously the RAW is clearer, but this is the photo. How to improve?

I'm a fan of B&W, and respond viscerally to shots like this, so I liked the "feel" of the image -- it's very evocative of the cold and isolation.

My issue is not with the subject or rendering, but with the composition: the eye works hard to pick out the overly dense image components on the upper left, follows down through the cabin and then... nothing. It seems to drop off the edge of the world in the lower right third.

I played around with cropping, but couldn't come up with a crop that made any significant changes, so I don't have any constructive suggestions other than working on visualizing what should be, and should not be, in the image. I found an after-market focusing screen screen with some type of grid helps me a lot with composition; and then laying a 3x3 "rule of thirds" grid on the image to see how your visualized image corresponds with the output image helps a lot...but others might disagree,
Brian