Cobwebbed Window

[Saorsa]

This was the back window of a barn workshop in Olney, Bucks.



I'll be back there this year to see of they've dusted.

[ionian]

Hi Brian - the crop is interesting and unusual, but I find it a little tight at the top.

What mood are you trying to convey? I wonder if this is the sort of image you can get creative with in pp. Turn that barn into a house of horrors! The saturated colours in the bricks seem to jar against the darkness of the cobwebs in the window. I think it would be fun to see what other feels you could give the picture.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Brian,

I agree with Simon with regard to the top, but assume there's something up there that would further distract us from the cobwebs.

I say 'further' because those red bricks are seriously competing for our attention already.

That obviously leads to me wondering what a monochrome conversion would look like?

HTH, Dave

[Shadowman]

Very nice.

[Saorsa]

Hi Brian,

I agree with Simon with regard to the top, but assume there's something up there that would further distract us from the cobwebs.

I say 'further' because those red bricks are seriously competing for our attention already.

That obviously leads to me wondering what a monochrome conversion would look like?

HTH, Dave

Funny you should ask:



I was really just interested in the cobwebs and the old window. This image shows you why I cropped too tight. I didn't like the nice modern plastic fixture screwed into the wood. I like it looser on the edges since the lintel isn't square over the windows. I did oversaturate trying to get some color in the stone and I need to fix that.

[bnnrcn]

IMO the B&W is a stronger image Brian

[Saorsa]

IMO the B&W is a stronger image Brian

I think so too except for the damned box. I'll be there again this June, perhaps I'll take some lessons in trompe l'oeil painting. I'm not very good with photoshop.

[ionian]

Photoshop content aware would, with some fidding, remove it completely - but much easier would be to reduce the brightness of the box so it's not so prominent. The wider crop and mono works much better for me.

[Wavelength]

Very nice; I too was going to suggest a mono before I started scrolling down. Was that wall with a curvature or a flat one?

[Saorsa]

Very nice; I too was going to suggest a mono before I started scrolling down. Was that wall with a curvature or a flat one?

It's flat but has had a lot of work done over the years. Here is a minimally processed SOOC version.



It was a stone barn and had a wider opening as evidenced by the large wooden lintel at the top that doesn't quite span the windows. That's the one with the plastic box screwed to it, You can see straight vertical seams in the stone at the sides of the window and the use of bricks as fill in. It appears that a larger door once existed below the big lintel and something else to the left side (the higher bit of lintel there). At some time these were removed and replaced with stone and then the second set of windows had to be framed with brick. Note the two panels on the right have a third individual lintel so I think that we are looking at two renovations here. Both the 'newer' lintels seem to have been recycled and of different ages. It would appear that the smaller was already bent from looking at the level of the bricks at the top.

It's an architectural history in one wall. I probably should have gone wider but there were usually large pieces of farm equipment parked nest to the wall and I took what I could get.

Here is another renovation detail. This is the front step of the renovated cottage where we stayed.



The renovations were completed about 20 years ago. The old step appears to have been very worn and needed correction. It looks like they just flipped it over so the part that was worn down to a curve was now on the bottom and you would have a nice flat step for another hundred years or so.

[IzzieK]

A less than one minute job, Brian....I will take it down if you do not like it.

Looking at it now after upload, I did not really did a good job, but you get the idea...I used both Content Aware (F5) and the Patch Tool.