I love driving along highways and seeing old barns. Farms are hard work, I know, but there’s something romantic about seeing a red barn standing strong in the middle of a field. Even – perhaps especially – if it’s run down. For that reason, this week’s photo for the edit me challenge really appeals to me.
Here’s the original:
Here’s my edit:
I didn’t do a whole lot to this. Using Pixelmator, I:
- Cropped it.
- Adjusted the exposure slightly.
- Increased saturation just a little.
- Did a colour balance – adjusted the colour towards red/green/blue to remove the hint of cyan/magenta hue that appeared once I’d increased the saturation.
I was tempted to make it sepia-coloured or black & white (see above re: romantic) but really wanted to show the weathering in the paint on the barn and the detail in the silo so I left it at that!
This post brought to you by my life list, #19: Really learn how to use a graphics editing program.
