Bicentennial Barn croped-1792-Edit-Edit-Edit

wonderful bw i like it gerolamo

Best regards

PDE

Harry,  I like this one even better than your other farm image.  I am from Ohio and remember these barns.  Nice capture with another terrific sky.  Larry

I agree with the great sky.  So much so that next time you should try raising the camera, do an in-camera crop of about 50% of the foreground, and give that amount to the sky where there is a lot more interest.  That would also de-center the barn, which would also be a good thing.  Two benefits with just a simple twist of the wrists (or tripod head) -- that's a good deal.

Harry, I suggested you de-center, not center, the barn (per your pm).  De-centering can be done horizontally (as you've done here) and vertically (which adding sky and taking away foreground would provide).

Centered. A beautiful sky and a mundane foreground. This, Harry, would have been terrific had you pointed the camera up and got more of the gray sky. The foreground, which holds little interest, would be greatly cropped out. You can still do it in editing. But, it would have been so much easier in-camera

While you're at it Harry, would you mind straightening it? Great capture. I really love it. But like a work of art hanging just a bit crooked on the living room wall, this photo gem is driving me crazy. Tilt to the left please. Thanks.

I tend to agree with comments about sky and foreground, though my first thought wasn't so much about how to change it as much as it was about my eye having a hard time focusing because there is so much brightness and highlighting coming at me from subject, most of the foreground, and a whole lot of the background. However, it's still a nice capture and you've certainly rendered the barn nicely and exposed the scene well. I'd tend not necessarily to alter the composition at this point, though it might have been helpful to have shot less foreground and a bit more sky. But some lighting changes might help alleviate the prominence of the foreground, if that's something that you'd want to try based upon the comments you've received. The barn would stay centered, but would appear in a different relationship to the whole with some burning or shadowing of the foreground and the foreground, though still there giving a decent sense of space to the barn, would not absorb so much visual attention.