Well... no. Nice colors and a cool place to shoot but I can't get why to tilt. Only to fit the topic? Please.

I took this photo long before the topic ever existed. I tilted because I liked the tilt. I took several shots of it at different angles. It was different, and non-conventional.

that sign is awesome

The sign is indeed quite cool. I wonder why you added the extreme vignette? It is quite distracting and unnatural looking.

I added the vignette because I like it and it flows with the processing I did on it and draws your eye in more to the sign.

I dont process for others, I process for me. But thank you for your opinion. I may keep it in mind next time.

Agree with Amy, an awesome sign, never seen one like that :)

Thanks! i've never seen one until that day...It ranks up there with warnings on coffee cups that the coffee is hot....

Really good ! :)

Nice up close detail. Do I detect Dr. Pepper in that bottle? He's got good taste!

Thanks!

That's actually RC. My husband loves RC Cola and she came up on the couch to see us....She loves anything sweet. We don't usually let her have anything that's not meant for a ferret, but this was too cute and we let her have enough to get the photo.

wow! so cute!

Amazing in so many ways.

Great picture. I love the colors of the clouds. Well done.

This is very interesting. The gray area in the background is a little distracting, as are the bars that distorted to silver, but i love the concept of the lone little acorn top. He seems so lost in the big, blue world. Oh, and I also like how very intense the blue is. :-)

What is the subject of this image? Is it the tree, the building, or the windmill. The composition doesn't make my eye snap to any one thing. The foreground is also too dark.

A good effort, but I (the viewer) am not seeing what the photographer saw in this scene -- it doesn't come across. I look forward to seeing a re-shoot. :-)

I agree with neutrahills on the composition of this image. It is confusing what the focus of interest is. The trees in the foreground obscure the barn and windmill too much, if that was your focus. You should have tried moving in front of them, if possible, or trying the image from a different angle if it wasn't possible. Often a different angle creates more interest in an image than a straight on shot anyhow.

I really love seeing images of old barns and of windmills, so I think you've got a great subject here to work with. If the location is close enough to you I'd go and experiment some more. Try focusing in on both subjects individually. Also watch your exposure. This image has too much contrast between foreground and sky. You've lost the details in the building. Morning or evening may provide a softer light to help with that contrast. As would a cloudy day - which may also add some moodiness to the image to enhance the abandoned aspect of the building.

Another thing you could do to help pull the details out of the foreground is to play around with curves and masks in Photoshop (providing that's what you use for editing). There are lots of tutorials available online that explain the process. One of my favorite sites is Luminous Landscape.

Thanks a ton for the tips! If I can find this building again I will go try my hand at it this evening. If not, I'll play with something else.

Thanks for the link as well. I think that site is going to be a huge help!

I believe if you were to move to the left and bring the whole building in closer and to the center and brighten the foreground some this would be a good photo of an old farm. If you are able to re-shoot this I would do so and submit it again.

I agree.....closer to the well tower from the agle and a little tighter would help this image.

This looks like a "Photomatix" image. Not sure I like the bright halos around objects in the image.

I would recommend re-processing this one. My suggestions:

1. Try it as a square format image with it tightened around the model and the fountain. They are the strongest elements in the image. I think the composition and posing are great, but they just need tightening.

2. Consider converting the image to black and white using a green filter as it should make the model's dark skin just pop out from the background and become one of the focal points of the image.

awesome :)

even just the top left hand corner of the image would be good - the rails against the sky....