Cityscape night shot

[mayera]

Comments and critiques please.

[tomorrowstreasures]

nice! love the glow of the lights.

[mayera]

Thank you very much. I was really unsure how it would turn out when I took it.

[tomorrowstreasures]

you are welcome - what are the stick things in the sand? oh - one more thing... since the lights in the black do not tell any part of your story, i would photoshop them out. just my opinion.

[mayera]

you are welcome - what are the stick things in the sand? oh - one more thing... since the lights in the black do not tell any part of your story, i would photoshop them out. just my opinion.

Some of the sticks in the sand are goal posts for soccer, the rest I am not sure of. I think the lights in the black may be lens reflection or somthing, but I agree and I think I will do that.

[Marko]

I like the lights as well but aside from that there's not that much going on in the photo. To improve, I think this shot could be much sharper, have the top cropped off and would have been better if something 'interesting' was happening in the foreground.
Hope that helps - Marko

[mayera]

Well I cannot do much about the foreground, but as for the rest of the suggestions is this any better?

[Marko]

It's better; I'd still crop more though - perhaps a full 2 inches off the top and right side where all the (mostly) pure black is. That blackness does not contribute to the scene imo. Hope that helps -- Marko

[tirediron]

Gack... level this image, PLEASE!!! :eek: All the water is running out from the left side of my monitor onto my desk!!!

[Rinkdaddy]

I think if you changed your point of view just a little to the left when you took the shot, it would have included more of the lights from the traffic on the road which would have helped and shown off more building lights.

[JAS_Photo]

Maybe a bit to the left and from a lower point of view which would also serve to raise your horizon?

[casil403]

I think this might look really nice as a panorama.

[Xenos]

Looks good, could be sharper and I agree with the crop suggestions.

Where is this? It looks like Santa Monica just by the pier, if it is, you should redo with the image moved over to include the pier.

[kurtdriver]

That curve is really nice, but as Marko suggested, that vast expanse of black is both uninteresting and also distracting.

[mayera]

Looks good, could be sharper and I agree with the crop suggestions.

Where is this? It looks like Santa Monica just by the pier, if it is, you should redo with the image moved over to include the pier.

Actually this picture was taken in Rio de Janiero.

[Mad Aussie]

I think the lights in the black may be lens reflection or somthing,
I'm guessing you had a screw on filter in place. They often create that reflection in night shots. You are better off taking off around bright lights. I learned this shooting night mountain biking events.

[Xenos]

Wow. I was way off, like a couple thousand km's off.