Winter Sunset at Utah's Capitol Hill

[chris cramer]

again, pushing the definition of landscape, but since it's got some sky...

5d2 and 16-35/2.8


Winter Sunset on Capitol Hill by Alter Your Perspective, on Flickr

[bretedge]

Killer sky, Chris.  I like the composition too, although I do find the keystoning a bit distracting.  Not much you can do about that unless you're using a tilt-shift lens.  I've heard the new Photoshop CC has a pretty good distortion removal tool, too.  Overall, really nice work!

[Rajan Parrikar]

This is a 1-click fix in ACR now.

[Paulo Bizarro]

Good light and colours.

[francois]

The sky is fantastic but I agree with previous comments about correcting keystoning.

[chris cramer]

What's this key stoning you guys are referring to?

[francois]

Convergence of the vertical lines! You can correct this with either Photoshop, ACR, Lightroom and other post-processing applications.

No need to perform a full 100% correction as it often looks unnatural.

[chris cramer]

No need to perform a full 100% correction as it often looks unnatural.

yeah, i was gonna say... perspective.  if you've ever stood at the base of a tall building and looked up...

i guess it doesn't bother me all that much in the OP... hmm.

it wasn't even shot that wide 26mm, so it's not like it's over exaggerated wide angle distortion.

[brandtb]

I would like to see it brightened up just a bit...nice image and colors though. Correcting perspective in photographs of buildings should be like anything else in photography...they are "choices we make" about what we want/need in the end. For books on architecture and architecture magazines - verticals are almost always straightened - but there is a reason for this. In other times and other applications one may (or may not) want to feel like the building is "towering above". For this image, I might straighten verticals up just a fraction. /B

[chris cramer]

Winter Sunset at Utah's Capitol Hill by Alter Your Perspective, on Flickr

[fenio]

Both are very nice- it's always about the sky/clouds.  I recently purchased a 24mm pc-e nikon in order to fix this kind of shot in the field. 

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

Two great shots, but
--> the first shows some burned colors (orange clouds) in the sky which need to be pulled back a little and
--> the second has burned whites which also should be fixed.

Cheers
~Chris

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

To my (uncalibrated) eyes, the colors in the first are much more plausible than are those in the second version.

[Christoph C. Feldhaim]

To my (uncalibrated) eyes, the colors in the first are much more plausible than are those in the second version.

Still visible banding / burnt orange above and a bit right of the cupula - when you know it you see it and don't stop seeing it ...