Day 106: Another Black and White Day

Today was a dreary day here in West Lafayette. When it wasn’t snowing again it was just a dull day. With no sun and the majority of the snow blown away I really had nothing to shoot. I saw a beautiful tree shot last night, but I knew I already had my shot for the blog. I left work today to head back to where I saw the tree scene. I actually passed it because it looked so different today. After trying a couple shots I decided to head home with nothing in the camera of worth. I saw what was to be my shot, but the snow was gone leaving it barren. Just down the road is a barn that I have been wanting to shoot. I saw a good angle of it that I could shoot from my car, but of course cars were coming. Who drives on a road anyway? Don’t they know that I am taking pictures. I snapped six quick ones from the location that you see in order to make an HDR image. That image looked okay, but it just looked too monochrome for my taste. I decided that since it already looked black and white that I should just finish the job with Photoshop. In the end I got a picture that pretty much sums up my short time out shooting today. The black and white saved a dull image. For some reason I really like how this turned out with the color removed. The scenes are beautiful when the snow freshly falls, but when it has sat and gotten dirty it does not look so good. With time on my side tomorrow I hope that I can have another productive Saturday. I have had a couple of good weekends in a row shooting.