This is one of those images taken after driving by then turning around to go back. After loading up the image in Lightroom, I wondered what had really pulled me to stop. I do this so often and it seems without thinking, not that I’m known for my thinking. My first answer is the color: red. Red is a powerful color for me and against the white windows it is even more pronounced. I took several compositions, a few with only two windows and one with only one window. However, all of the images seem to be lacking something. What I felt when taking the image is not the same. I’m thinking (there I go again) there needs to be another subject. I would like to have seen a pitchfork or garden hoe leaning up against the barn. Maybe the farmer. Anyway, I can go back and ask the owner if we can add a prop or two. So, here’s the red barn.
6 Comments
Tom Dills
Probably needs a few more shadows…. 🙂
Definitely very graphic, and the perpendicular lines and contrasting colors work well. Not sure what made you look, but it’s pretty static like it is.
Monte Stevens
I think it was the red walls against the white windows and roof; COLOR, contrast. I don’t always understand why but stopping was a powerful impulse.
David Leland Hyde
I agree, it does need something else. What you have is enough to get attention, yours and the viewers, but there needs to be at least one more element to keep our interest.
Monte Stevens
Thanks, David. I’t works but it could be more.
Earl
The lines, shapes and colors are attention grabbing but the eye wanders about the image looking for a focus point, that something else. The center window serves weakly in that regard but I agree there’s something more missing.
Monte Stevens
Yes, I needed a pitch fork. Dang it!