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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: batmura on September 16, 2013, 02:48:24 pm

Title: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: batmura on September 16, 2013, 02:48:24 pm: I just found a Manhattan long exposure sunset that I did a couple of months ago and thought I'd post it here for C&C.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3692/9776235314_44d6af3bb3_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9776235314/)
Manhattan Long Exposure (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9776235314/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: Rand47 on September 16, 2013, 04:10:33 pm: Lovely image. If I were to do anything, I might crop in from the right just enough to eliminate the tree - say half way from the right frame edge and the right-most skyscraper.

Rand
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: Iluvmycam on September 16, 2013, 06:52:36 pm: Freaky...I like it!
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on September 17, 2013, 04:32:40 am: Wonderful light. I agree with the cropping suggestion.
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: dhancock on September 17, 2013, 06:08:55 pm: Fantastic!
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: wolfnowl on September 17, 2013, 06:58:15 pm: Love the parallels. Agree with removing the tree.

Mike.
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: AFairley on September 17, 2013, 08:52:47 pm: Quote from: wolfnowl on September 17, 2013, 06:58:15 pm
Love the parallels. Agree with removing the tree.

Mike.
Agree with Mike. Very nice mood, too.
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: stamper on September 18, 2013, 06:10:18 am: Yes get the axe out and you have a very worthwhile image. :)
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: Cem on September 18, 2013, 06:22:13 am: I think that an important part of the subject here are the poles in the foreground, especially since they cover more than the half of the image. Therefore, I would suggest increasing their luminosity just a little bit. In LR you could add a gradient filter from the bottom and play with the shadows/exposure sliders to see what works out for you. Mind you, just a suggestion. The image is very nice as is.

Just to give you an idea what I'm talking about, I took the liberty of editing the photo in PS. I hope you don't mind? If you do, I'll remove it.
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: stamper on September 18, 2013, 06:38:01 am: I have had another look and the above suggestion has definite merit.
Title: Re: Manhattan long exposure sunset
Post by: brandtb on September 18, 2013, 12:17:41 pm: You have two different "things" going on...one nearly dark foreground of pier pilings, and then the colorful "half" skyline...these are working against each other. The pilings look better with shadows pulled up...but is it successful as a whole? I'm not so sure. You might look at image with the bottom half cropped off as well...although the right half of skyline is sort of blunt. Nice colors...I live here...so it's nice to see someone take the time to go after shots like this.