Old abandoned grain mill - Washington State (B&W)

[lovelife65]

Palouse region.
Hung with the pups last week in another part of Washington State (Pullman area for WSU Vet Teaching Hospital).

Got in a few photos. Some very interesting stuff out there.
Hard to get a good angle, as it's right off the road and I don't trespass

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[Shadowman]

Nicely seen and captured.

[LePetomane]

Sharon, very nice.

[lovelife65]

Thank you John and PD.

[tbob]

Too bad you could not walk around to the other side. Still I think you have done splendidly in portraying the magnificent decrepitude of the structure. Black and white was a good choice to bring out the texture.

I think your trespass laws in the USA are a bit more rigorous than ours in Canada. If not posted, and you are benign, then at most you will be asked to leave in Canada. Should i ever go shooting in the USA I will have to amend my ways.

[Manfred M]

Lovely image Sharon. I personally find that you have cropped the image a bit too much and that gives a cramped feeling to the shot. I do like your choice of B&W here, it suits the subject.

[lovelife65]

Lovely image Sharon. I personally find that you have cropped the image a bit too much and that gives a cramped feeling to the shot. I do like your choice of B&W here, it suits the subject.

Thank you Manfred. I appreciate your kind words and thoughts.
I actually didn't crop it, I just didn't have a lens that was able to get out of that cramped feeling, as it was right at the road, not much space and very big. I did use my widest angle lens just to get the building in the whole frame. (16/24 mm).
I guess there is something to be said for big zoom lenses, I just don't have them

[lovelife65]

Too bad you could not walk around to the other side. Still I think you have done splendidly in portraying the magnificent decrepitude of the structure. Black and white was a good choice to bring out the texture.

I think your trespass laws in the USA are a bit more rigorous than ours in Canada. If not posted, and you are benign, then at most you will be asked to leave in Canada. Should i ever go shooting in the USA I will have to amend my ways.

Thank you Trevor. I appreciate your comments. I believe some of the more popular photographic areas in the Palouse area are having issues with hoards of people not respecting private property. Going inside of buildings like this, removing things, graffiti (you see it on this building), so in this area it's becoming a bigger deal. I think if you are respectful, which it sounds like you are... you wouldn't have many issues. I just didn't want to take a chance.

[MrB]

You have portrayed the abandoned building really well in mono, Sharon. Two points about its shadow: 1. I wonder if you might have been able to include all of it within the frame? 2. Its effect seems rather heavy on the left, so perhaps lift it with a touch of software fill-light there? Just my opinions, of course.

Cheers.
Philip

[lovelife65]

You have portrayed the abandoned building really well in mono, Sharon. Two points about its shadow: 1. I wonder if you might have been able to include all of it within the frame? 2. Its effect seems rather heavy on the left, so perhaps lift it with a touch of software fill-light there? Just my opinions, of course.

Cheers.
Philip

Thanks for your thoughts Phillip. They help me to go back and look at the capture again and see where I may have been able to do better, and that's appreciated. Yes, the tightness of the shot led to a little bit too much in frame of the building only. Would have loved to have included more of the landscape. Sigh, would have required a different lens to really do a good job with the composition.

[MrB]

Would have loved to have included more of the landscape. Sigh, would have required a different lens to really do a good job with the composition.

Hello Sharon.

When shooting static subjects and the lens isn't quite wide enough for your desired composition, take a small series of shots so that each overlaps the previous one by about a third. Then use software to align and stitch the shots together, and crop the composite image to get the result you want. There are several free programs that will achieve this very effectively, even with hand-held shots - I use Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor), which I have found to be very easy to use. I posted an example in CiC a little while ago which was a composite of just two shots - One dull day in Exeter

Cheers.
Philip