"Shed"

As always, thank you for viewing my photos.

Bellisima fotografia!!...un acirto en blanco y negro, buena textura y tonalidad...Felicidades!...7/6

Thank you very, very much.

I love this photo. My only suggestion is to crop a bit off of the left and maybe a little off the bottom so that the photo is divided into thirds a bit more. (That would give you 1/3 on the left, an upper 2/3 for the window, and 1/3 for the darker boards on the bottom right) Just my 2 cents... I still really like it...

Gerry, that sounds cool.. but I am a bit lost would you mind editing the image and postign an example to help me out a bit? I really appreciate the comments and help. I am a bit lost with digital b&W and I am experimenting.

Norman , did you take a close up shot of the lock there ( in sepia ) ?

I just like the way the wood looks ... very interesting composition - the lock on the left, the white window on the right, well balanced. The more I look at it, the more I like it !

Hello my friend. I do think I took a photo detailing the lock and in fact did sepia tone it but I didn't post it. Scary! ;)

 

I will post it over the weekend if I can find it.

Thank you very much. I really feel comments are more important than ratings especially now that the new rating system is being employed.

 

I am new to digital photography and I am experimenting with, and making a lot of mistakes along the way, with digital B&W. So any help or suggestions help me as well as the works of others like Tuhin whose work I find inspirational and influential.

 

So Cristi, you words are very encouraging and help me push forward and I just wanted to say thank you for helping.

Beautiful tones and textures....

This is very pleasing to look at Norman. I can understand the idea of the left side cropped a bit, but then that just might make the white window appear too strong. If I were to change anything, I'd bring the uppper left corner burn down and in. this would make a very nice selenium/sulfide toned silver print, Come on man, go medium format film!

Hi Norman. I took a shot a cropping your image. I'm still learning myself, so please don't think that this is necessarily better. I'd be interested to see what you and others think.

Norman, Very good tonal range and composition. (Cropping a tad bit from the left will help, though)

I just stopped by to look at this one again. As Cristi says, it just keeps getting better. This is portfolio quality work here. I see there's been a lot of discussion regarding different crops. Heck, usually I'm the one making such recommendations. In this case however, I think that your original composition is spot on. It is not the least bit static - the eye moves quite naturally from lock to window and back, eye-pleasing detail abounds, and oh, that gorgeous wood grain! I think that the compositional "rules" are good and generally result in the best compositions, but not always. For "Salmon House" I wouldn't sacrifice one millimeter of it for any rule. (O6/A7). Regards, D.

Wow. Thank you all so much for the kind words, advice and thoughts regarding this photo. I really appreceiate every word of it. -NP

being a newcomer learning, I think your original crop is just perfect considering the geometric of the picture. the 1/3 rule looks somewhat not right.