Barn at night.

So I was making this image for a Skills USA competition, however I consider this photo a failure, everything possible went wrong. This photo was going to have star trails, but instead I got a cloudy night to shoot it on. I’m out of time, I don’t have the weather to re-shoot it even if I wanted to.

Is this photo as bad as I think it is?

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Pretty nice... a tad dark, and the light on the left out of the barn is a bit distracting... but I like it.

It's not bad. Definitely some issues, like insufficient lighting, and contrast in lighting, to differentiate the front wall more-or-less facing us from that to our left, which "flattens" the building oddly for the viewer. I seem to be saying this about every second picture I critique today, but it also seems like you've angle the camera upwards from horizontal - centre of the shot is three quarters of the way up the building - way over your head. That's create quite a bit of distortion, pinching the building's vertical inwards towards the top, and left a smidge too little foreground.

Whether it's competition worthy depends a lot on the competition, how it compares to your other work, and whether you've got a reputation you feel you need to live up to or are just doing it for fun....

Cheers,
Tony