May evening

[sdwilsonsct]

This is just a mile from my house, yet it took me over 10 years to get around to shooting it. I look forward to more interesting skies.
Feedback welcome.

[luxborealis]

Great photo! Well seen and captured. For me, though, the photograph is in the trees without the house - I love the playfulness of the arcs  they create. The rectilinear structure and shadowed presentation of the house is a great foil to the trees, but the trees, alone, would make an equally compelling photograph.

[maddogmurph]

Sweet simplicity. There must be a way to reduce the lens flare on that tree for future shots. That would be my pet project if I was there...

[drmike]

Very nice image, lots of impact without being over doe. Personally I think the image is as you have seen it with teh building and trees. I find the sky a little weak, did you use a CPL and I wonder if it could have helped.

[stamper]

As it is a fine image. I wouldn't alter anything.

[Paulo Bizarro]

I like it as it is.

[francois]

Well worth the 10-year wait! I wouldn't change it.

[sdwilsonsct]

Thanks for the comments.
Terry: yes, the tree is nice, and I tried to get it alone. On this evening, however, the elements (curved shadows) did not line up. Try, try again.
Mike: this was shot with a Canon 17 mm T/S so no filter was available. Hopefully better skies will come along.
Murphy: all suggestions welcome.

[brandtb]

Very nice Scott, subject, sky, and especially the color. A couple of things, although difficult to say because of the JPEG, it looks like in the image posted that there are alternating bands of "lens cast" artifacts around the sun -  which I think I saw in another image of yours earlier(?). If it is, I would try to repair it in Raw Therapee - trying some of the highlight repair options, or in future shoots some correction frames for use in LR as discussed in LuLa tut. - also similar methods for Capture One. Lastly, to my eye there is a lot of magenta in the sky which I find a bit distracting - you might look at it with a little bit of the magenta pulled back so sky goes a fraction more to cobalt rather than blue-violet. /B

[churly]

Spring on the prairies - looking good.  I have some rain, drizzle and fog if you want to trade  .

Is there any chance that you could step a bit to the right and get a bit of separation between the house and tree?

Chuck

[sdwilsonsct]

it looks like in the image posted that there are alternating bands of "lens cast" artifacts around the sun...
... to my eye there is a lot of magenta in the sky which I find a bit distracting - you might look at it with a little bit of the magenta pulled back so sky goes a fraction more to cobalt rather than blue-violet. /B

Good points, Brandt. Those bands are sloppy processing (brushing in Aperture). But you have me looking at my RAW files more critically.

Yeah, I got a little happy with the blue, probably overcompensating for the lack of blue closer to the sun.

Thanks, Chuck. On the prairie I can step right, left, back, etc etc, but I still can't get a perfect composition. In this case, right would bring the sun out from behind the tree; ahead cuts off just part of the house. The Tragedy of Landscape Photography.