New Jersey Farm

C&C appreciated. How would you improve it? Picture edits can be

posted. Thanks for your comments. Alan.

Alan,  I like the composition and sense of expansiveness created by the big sky.  i tinkered with the image and mainly removed the blue cast with auto white balance.  This opened up the shadows too.  I like the effect, what about you?  Best to you.  Larry

Larry:  Yes there was a blue tint.  Thanks for taking it out.  It also made the field easier to see details.  Thnaks.  Alan.

I think Larry made some good edits.  I like the reduced blue, sharper clouds, and especially the increased detail and color of the foreground.

Stephen:  Yes,  Larry did a great job correcting my poor PP.  What to you think about the shot itself after Larry's corrections?  Pros and cons?  Thanks.  Alan

the Clouds make a nice pattern in the sky, Lovely composition too. great work.

Best regards Tore

Alan, I think it's a good depiction of rural farm life in the flatlands.  I like the division between land and sky you've chosen, and this amount of sky adds to the sense of vastness of the area.  The relatively small steel buildings do the same.  More foreground would not have added much, IMO, and probably would have been more of a distraction.

Thanks Tore and Stephen for you comments. 

Although the rule of the two thirds isn't abode , I like this picture! The wide open space is what I like and less the look of the modern barns or whatever the houses are!

Best regards, Alan!

PDE

P.S. The colors are much better on the second image on the page, that one Larry posted! More real, vivid and kind of revive the whole spectacle!

I agree Larry's colors are much better.  Thanks for your comments.

Irrespective of the changes made, which undoubtedly are very pleasing too, this is an interesting shot, primarily because of the predominance of the sky and the way in which it carries the scene so strongly almost on it's own, something really hard to do. A very beautiful shot, one which I am certain is still more impressing when seen in really large format. 

Truly, the inventor of nature had a lot of taste .. : -) 

I like it, especially the cloud bank in the distance that looks like a range of mountains.

The original has less detail, but I wonder if the grass was quite the hue that is shown in the new version.

--Lannie

Thanks Lannie for your comments.  I liked the mountain illusion as well.  The real colors were probably somewhere between the correct picture and the blue casted scan I need of the film.