The Barn and the Windmills
In 2011 I had just purchased my Canon 60D, and I spent a lot of time trying to find subjects to make images of. My two favorite that year of course were the barns and windmills. This was a photo that I really enjoyed making, but it never made it on the website. Something was always missing from the photo, and I wondered if I could make it pop in Lightroom. This has been a theme for the last couple of weeks is to rework a photo on Thursday. This is kind of a new way to bring back the Throwback Thursday theme that I used to have. This photo was made before this blog was even thought of. After over 1,200 posts that is hard to imagine.
Technical Data
This was a photo that sat around for a while. While dumping some images off of my iPhone I came across it. I decided to run the photo through Lightroom to see what I could do to it. I applied the HDR Look preset to this image to begin the editing. I then cropped a little off of the bottom, and increased the saturation to get the result that I wanted. I rarely use the saturation slider, but on a jpeg it gets me the result that I want faster than the vibrance slider can. With a RAW image the saturation slider really can get to be too much very quickly. Here on the jpeg with less data to work with you can crank it a little.
Photo Sale!
This image and all of my others on my website here are now 50% off until Labor Day. I thought that after the long winter that we endured a photo sale was in order. If you like the photo above just click on it, and you will be taken directly to the image on SmugMug. If you just want to browse my online portfolio you can click on the link below.
Dave Wegiel Photography 
Nice barn. It is weird seeing the old barn with wind turbines in the background – different era; not quite like the windmills of yesteryears.
Thanks. With all of the windmills around here they just have become part of the landscape. I would love to see more of the old school windmills around though.