Doe, I love this shot! It has a fantastic old feel to it with that overblown sky. I suspect that if you'd taken the shot "properly", it wouldn't have looked unique such as it does now.
I wouldn't mess with the tree, but maybe a bit of vignetting would add a nice touch, but vignetting is up to taste (I happen to like it). Cheers, --M. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- http://www.EnticingTheLight.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009/10/11 <[email protected]>: > Hmmm, long story, I'll try to shorten it. > > The two buildings on the end right are closed and abandoned and have been > for some time. The store on the left end (with a bar) is still open. It is > a lot newer that than the others (relatively speaking). > > This is a very, very small town (basically five buildings) that is verging > on being a ghost town. The Emporium & Bar and the Post Office (not shown) > struggle to keep going. It is in Northern Northern California. > > I stopped by at the end of my Oregon/Washington trip, in the valley where > my father grew up, and again took some photos. I have shown a few before on > list. > > The middle building is my great grandfather's store. He and my other great > grandfather both came to CA for the Gold Rush. Neither made any money from > finding gold, but one ended up having a very successful cattle ranch, and > this one ended up opening the first chain stores in Northern California > (general stores). > > I, oops, accidentally, took a whole digital "roll" overexposed. I thought > I had it set on AV and the dial had been pushed to manual. (That won't > happen again, now I will check every time.) > > Using Lightroom and suggestions from a new Lightroom book I got, I was > actually able to recover a couple. > > The rest had interesting effects. I sort of like this one. > > Certainly good enough for the "cover" of a PDF I am doing on my family > history (for family members). > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/store.htm > > Tell me if you agree. > > (I've thought about taking the foliage out from under the tree, but think > that might not be an improvement. I've also thought about adding > vignetting, ditto, might not improve it.) > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
