January
Title - "Barn & Snow"

How I did it-his photo was taken just 2 days after the one used in Nov. for our first snow storm of winter 2011. It was 7:30 Am Temp 14 and 9 inches of snow. Taken in same spot as the other one. Scanned into CS5 and did some burning on the sky and the mountains as in the other one. Used the Smart Sharpen filter to some what help the tile on the silo.  I also used this photo for my Christmas card this year.

COMMENTS:
 

Barbara Miller	Nice Job! The only thing that I think it lacks is a little more detail in the sky, but well composed and I am sure your friends thought it a good Chrismas card
David Cooke	It’s a lovely photo, and an excellent choice for a Christmas card. I like the composition but it’s just a bit too saturated for my taste. Maybe a very subtle vignetting in the top right and left of the sky would help to stop my eye from drifting out of the frame.
Mike Lilliss	Very nice image, it's compose well and the exposure is good. There is detail in the bright snow and the dark barn also has detail.  It would be nice if you could bring out some detail from the very dark shed on the right. There are some faint clouds that I wish we could see better.
T W Woodruff
Nick Muskovac	I wish I was there with you with my camera!  The snow makes this picture;  good work on sharpening the selected areas;  Composition is good, except I would have added a couple of clouds in the sky.
Nancy Conley	Well composed rural scene.

Member Bio

John Yurchak - Biography I started in photography in 1957 with 3 very dear friends that gave me much encouragement to start. They were Richard Biddle who is now deceased, Paul Maloney who was the sports photographer and writer for the Greeley Tribune newspaper, and Ken Hikida who own Kens Camera in Greeley without their help I would not have stayed in photography. I joined PSA in 1973 and I have being doing B/W photography in my own darkroom and as well as all kind of slide work, but the main interested I started with was Nature photography in which I entered many Salons to earn 2 Stars as a nature Exhibitor. Now I am still doing darkroom work in PSA Pictorial Study Group in B/W as well as a Nature Slide Study Group and I belong High Country Camera Club in Colorado. I do make prints with the computer for this camera club and do slide work as well in all types, Glassware, Black Light, Close up, Nature and use of Litho with color slides. I still use film for my digital work using a Canon EOS 10s and Canon Elan 7e for all my work. I use either Provia 100 or Sensia 100 Slide film or TRI X for my B/W work. I then scan the film with my Minolta Dimage Scan Dual Slide film at 2438 dpi and then export to Photoshop 7 for all my manipulations for my prints, I use the Epson 1280 printer for my prints for my camera club usually 11 X 17 prints. I usually do not go to the 13 X 19 that are available for the 1280 printer. I am just a beginner for any manipulations of the image and just do mostly straight prints or some modification to the print. I will need all the help that this group can give me.

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