We had a leaders retreat for our church plant at DeerCreek resort south of Columbus. I ended up driving down there a couple of times before the actual weekend to organize details and on the way down I came across this abandoned house and thought immediately that it could make a cool image. On the way home from the retreat Aimee and I stopped at a couple of places to take shots and this was my location. It is a tiny run down house that is being help up by twigs it seems. With my Sigma 18-125 I was just able to get in the tops of the trees into the picture being able to dodge the power lines on the road. I just thought it was a pretty cool location.
I spent close to three hours editing this image. I was shooting for a slightly overprocessed look but still keeping it reasonable. I had to crop it from where it was originally so that I could get the optimum size within a range that looked good downsized and entered as it was massive! This is a different kind of image for me as I dont really do alot of landscape or architectural type shots. I am not sure how well this will do in a FS - hopefully at least a 6. But overall I am very pleased with my end product of an image that I really wanted to take the second I saw my "model". I may go back at different times of year to see what this scene looks like with snow, new leaves, etc.
Processing - RAW conversion twice - once for the house and once for everything else with the usual shadow/highlight contrasts, sharpen, saturation and hue. In PS - belnded the two layers after masking out the house and then levels, saturation, tons of dodging and burning, minor cloning on the path, USM, NI, crop, resize, USM and border.
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Nice title, but you're missing an apostrophe. Don't you hate when people leave comments like this? I do very much like the dead-center composition. May be just a *wee* bit oversharpened in the tree branches but the look kinda fits the picture.
It is rather amusing. I bet those trees were planted the same time the house was built. Composition works for me. Like the colors. Top 1/3 not interested but at the same time, needed. 7 - good luck in the challenge!
I like the composition and the over-all mood of this image but the lines of the tree branches appear un-smooth and have a slight halo effect against the lighter sky...perhaps it's oversharpened?
I love this. The symmetry works perfectly with the out building to counterbalance it a smidge. The touches of red add to the green and yellow pallette. Perfectly saturated. Awesome title. NICE! 8
A little shabby for Tim's budget ;) but you gotta love it, those trees!
A most excellent title. I even like the shot more now. Though titling rarely has an effect on me. But it's a good shot to match.
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