I do not expect you to follow in the footsteps of Icarus, the feathers are probably from a protected species of Eagle, but study the environment and keep your eyes open for opportunities. Capture those opportunities as your brand of art.
I wouldn’t do much cropping on this photo; the barn is naturally placed in a good 1/3 of the frame for composition. If you were to crop some, it would only be the bright sky in the left end of the frame, keep the barn in the right 1/3 of the frame. Be careful on cropping, you wouldn’t want to lose any dramatic shadows.
Suggestion; keep an eye on the setting sun and the time of day you normally travel down these country roads. In the days to come, you may be able to capture more dramatic photographs as the sun sets earlier each day.
Michael G
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Great suggestions, Michael, and I'd love to pursue the sun, but hopefully not like Icarus!
Natalie, I like your photo a lot as a landscape. That said, I agree with Voss about taking the open space off the top, and I'd go a step further and remove some of the bottom, making your work into a very pleasing horizontal.
Looks good. I think it's really the black areas that make this. You could replace that barn with a haystack or a rusted-out Buick, and it would still be a good photo.
Thank you, Voss. I just printed it on 13 by 19 semigloss and it came out well.
You all have been so forthcoming with great suggestions I am revisiting a non-street image. I suspect you would crop off the left side, but I love the gradual development of the mist and its warmth. : )