Would you like to contribute to next year’s “Barn Quilt’s Neversink” calendar?

Chuck Rehm, barn quilt photographer, shares the following helpful tips in taking barn quilt photos:

• Take photos during the magic hours of the day; the first and last couple hours of the day.  Shadows are more dramatic and the sun warmer in hue.

• Don’t be satisfied to “snap a photo” on the drive by if the lighting is poor.  Make a note and drive by again when the light is better. 

• Use a polarizer filter if possible to deepen colors and cut glare. Think of deep blue skies and puffy white clouds. 

• Photograph at varying times of year.  The sun will be in different sky positions lighting a barn quilt in ways that are not possible at other times of the year. 

• Frame your pictures.  Subjects are often times best placed off center.  Use the “rule of thirds” dividing your scene into thirds top to bottom and left to right.  Place your quilt on one of these four intersections.

• Drab, dreary scenes will give you drab, dreary photographs.  Unless you are going for a certain effect, consider that most people like bright, colorful photographs.

• Incorporate some of the surrounding scenery into your picture.  It will place the barn and quilt into the country context.

• Most importantly, always have your camera with you.  You never know when the perfect barn quilt scene will appear before you. 

Help us create the 2012 Barn Quilts of Neversink Calendar!

Submit your digital photo’s to: barnquiltsofneversink@gmail.com by August 15, 2011.