Lovin' This Ole Tin Shed . . . Constructive advice is welcome.

[Kathy O]

It may be cold out but there is a certain peace and calmness about winter (unless you are getting a blizzard and then my heart goes out to all affected)

Please enlarge for better viewing. Constructive advice is welcome.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Kathy,

I see from the EXIF that you shot this with the trusty 35mm, f/1.8 lens on your Nikon D7100 at f/2.2, 1/50s and ISO 125.

There are two aspects of this that detract for me, one is kinda unavoidable from this viewpoint and that is that the barn is the subject, but it occupies half the frame, ideally, I think we needed to see more barn and less tree, but I can see why you framed as you have so that we can see the edge of that background tree.

Incidentally, I like your choice of f/2.2 to isolate the subject from the background.

Unfortunately (as I'm sure you already noticed), it seems the AF has locked on to the contrasty branches in front of the barn, so the building itself is not as sharp as it ought to be

Given the foliage completely surrounding the barn, I accept it would be difficult to get a good AF lock on it - and with 35mm, it would also be difficult to determine visually through the V/F whether you had got the building sharp. Perhaps a magnified view in Live View might have been better? But I don't know whether you had already tried this, or if you were using a tripod?
(nor how 'frozen' you were! - I know the cold makes me rush things)

I hope those observations are helpful, Dave

[Geoff F]

I wonder about a crop from the top to reduce the area above the barn by around half. And a balancing amount from the left side I suppose.

[Shadowman]

I may be wrong but I think the composition was chosen to include all of the tree. If I had taken this photo I would have been trying to capture it as well.

[Wavelength]

Excellent subject&colors


Need it be rotated anticlockwise some?

[Kathy O]

Thank you all for your comments. I have a couple more versions of this little tin shed, one with a wider crop showing more of the landscape around the building and one that is a portrait crop. If there is interest I will post them also.

The focus is soft this I do realize . . . I did not really have time to set up with my tripod this was not really a planned shoot (I was babysitting Granddaughters and they were going to wake up any time, I happened to look outside and saw how pretty it was, grabbed my camera and my daughters shoes and snapped a couple of photos, sure enough when I went inside the girls were waking up.

Again thank you for your input