I was driving to meet a friend for lunch when I noticed this old barn in the middle of a new housing development. Went back the next day to take a few shots.
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Thanks for all the comments and tips everyone. I don't live close enough to the barn to watch for owls and it's not on my regular daily commute. I think I may go back and shoot from the back of the barn and take some rain pants. Everything is so wet around these parts... I wanted to get lower but didn't want to be a muddy mess either. :)
I think you did a nice job to get the subject off center and to control the rather difficult to deal with grey sky. As Sonifo commented, taking a lower angle may add a bit more drama to the shot. Also, the barn itself comes off as rather dark, maybe trying to photograph it in the early morning or early evening when the light is softer may help pull out the textures and soften the sky.
This barn sure needs some more investigation on your part! I think you could find about 10 entries out of that one barn. I could imagine that there are lots of cool bits that could be taken in macro - rust and decay sure show up great in close ups.
Now that is a one cool old barn. Have you seen any owls hanging around it?
I would say that the angle isn't to bad, but to make it more dramatic get a bit lower to the ground as to be sneaking up on it and giving the barn more power in the image. Using curves or contrast would really make the textures stand out too. Oh..most don't like a subject centered in the shot but to me..sometimes is ok and I think this time would be ok as long as it is shot from a lower angle.
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