Snowfence

[tbob]

This snowfence was probably made in the 1920's to prevent snowdrifts forming on the railway track of the now abandoned Northern Alberta Railway. The fence is very rotten and very weathered. I suspect it may only be a few more years until it is gone.

In processing I gave it a bit of brown tinge to the darker areas, and very slight brown to the highlights. This was done because the weathered wood is very silvery (if that is a word; very light grey and shiny), I felt it needed some tonal range help. The image is rotated 90 degrees, I liked that composition more than the vertical. As usual, any opinions welcome

[Rufus]

You have captured the grain in the wood very well; and also in the wire and nails.

I found I wanted to investigate the hole in the shadow below the horizontal timber; so you might consider cloning some shadow over it to remove the distraction.

[Manfred M]

It works well Trevor. The "weight" is definitely concentrated at the bottom of the image so the orientation change works quite well.

I'm not 100% convinced that the brown tinge works as well as pure B&W would though.

[Shadowman]

Nicely processed.

[tbob]

This is the pure black and white. The image I posted initially turned out to be the wrong one, it was too brown I had corrected that in a second processed image. Replaced with the proper image in the initial post

[Donald]

Yep - better!

The wood looks magnificent. You have processed this very well indeed.

One thing I wonder about (because I have recently taken a couple of similar type of shots) is the lack of a point of attention; i.e. where is our eye meant to land as a starting point to view the whole image.

Like I say, I have done similar type of shots (not featuring wood) and that question has bothered me. Others may not agree that there is not a point of focal interest

[tbob]

You have captured the grain in the wood very well; and also in the wire and nails.

I found I wanted to investigate the hole in the shadow below the horizontal timber; so you might consider cloning some shadow over it to remove the distraction.

I debated removing that element. Finally decided to keep it as I did not like a black triangle in the centre.
Will be interesting to see if it bothers others

[tbob]

Yep - better!

The wood looks magnificent. You have processed this very well indeed.

One thing I wonder about (because I have recently taken a couple of similar type of shots) is the lack of a point of attention; i.e. where is our eye meant to land as a starting point to view the whole image.

Like I say, I have done similar type of shots (not featuring wood) and that question has bothered me. Others may not agree that there is not a point of focal interest

Interesting point and one I struggle with in these type of images where it is overall combination of tone and texture, not one or two essential elements.

[Manfred M]

Yep - better!

The wood looks magnificent. You have processed this very well indeed.

One thing I wonder about (because I have recently taken a couple of similar type of shots) is the lack of a point of attention; i.e. where is our eye meant to land as a starting point to view the whole image.

Like I say, I have done similar type of shots (not featuring wood) and that question has bothered me. Others may not agree that there is not a point of focal interest

This is something often found in some landscape shots and abstract images. There isn't a point of interest per se, but rather a visual flow through the image. Line wood grain and the triangular lines that the boards produce do that.