Rural Tagging

Not all tags are Urban

Interesting subject (love rural life stuff). I wonder if it would have been better composed a bit off center of the frame? I'm not sure how it looks "full blown" - did you do a lot of sharpening on this? For some reason it looks "crunchy" to me in this thread.

Replaced image, not sure what happened there

Crunchy look is gone.

The grass in the front looks a little pinkish to me, but maybe my laptop screen needs calibrated. I still think that I would have liked to be farther away from the image and off-center to make the building look a bit more isolated and alone, emphasizing the fact that it is no longer cared for and falling apart. Granted, I don't know - for all I know there's a beautiful new barn on one side and a new highway on the other, making isolating it an impossible task. If it's alone, though, I would actually have gotten farther back from it, off to one side a bit. Centered images usually seem kind of stagnant...

wuzzittoya wrote in post #13805468
Crunchy look is gone.

The grass in the front looks a little pinkish to me, but maybe my laptop screen needs calibrated. I still think that I would have liked to be farther away from the image and off-center to make the building look a bit more isolated and alone, emphasizing the fact that it is no longer cared for and falling apart. Granted, I don't know - for all I know there's a beautiful new barn on one side and a new highway on the other, making isolating it an impossible task. If it's alone, though, I would actually have gotten farther back from it, off to one side a bit. Centered images usually seem kind of stagnant...

Thanks, moving back would have brought a bunch of trees, and debris, into the shot off to the left that I think would have made it worse, plus i would have been on a slope looking up at it...

Tried to make it not completely centered but...

unedited look at the house that goes with it...

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Yes, it's rather large to do that with. Too bad that it was so difficult to compose! Have you looked at processing it as black and white too? I realize you lose the color of the tagging, but sometimes the monochrome adds a bit to the derelict look... Did you up contrast on it? Sometimes when I do that I see a pinkish tone in my grasses, etc., if I've pushed it just a bit too far. I love rural themes. Plan on exploring them a lot more in the future since it's what I have to shoot.

Definitely tagging rural - see it on abandoned buildings, bridges... I think wherever there are kids there is always going to be someone running around with a can of spray paint!

On that one the colors come through nicer on my screen - bright and accurate without the pink tone. I took a picture of a house almost like that here in rural Missouri - missing the addition to the right.

You know on the other - composing looking up at it might actually be kind of neat - "elevating" it juxtaposed against its obvious neglect...

Hrm, I see the pinkish now. How's this?

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And a B&W version...

Definitely much better without the pink!

Not sure about the black and white, which is a surprise. Usually I love my abandoned houses and buildings in black and white!