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!!! 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.