I seriously cheated on this photograph. I wanted just the house on stilts. I tried taking the shot from a variety of angles, but nothing felt or looked right.
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I jokingly call my 'bad' photographs the raw material from which a much better photograph can be created. I wanted the house on stilts, but how to get what I wanted from what I had. With an enormous assist from Lightroom and a couple of creative editing programs from Topaz Labs, I got that photograph.
I cropped the photograph to get rid of the pickup and backhoe. The telephone/electrical wires were distractions that had to go as well.
According to the histogram, the exposure was right. (A big THANK YOU to Jim for teaching us how to use the histogram in camera. Now I need to master spot metering...) I didn't want the house in silhouette, so I opened up the shadows all the way. A couple of nifty filters enhanced the sun coming up behind the house and added a bit of nostalgic texture.
House On Stilts, Taylor's Landing VA
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