sydney lights

please comment on this thanx

Karen--

 

I have to give this a 7 for originality. The colorful reflection on the water is really quite anice effect. I've never seen anything quite like it ... not even on a postcard. (Maybe you should send that pic to a postcard printer!)

 

For aesthetics, though, I have to give this pic a low rating. The framing on three sides is really disruptive and has to go. Also, the lights of the buildings are overdone to my taste. When you do a long-exposure night shot, it helps to shoot several different pics at radically different exposure times--2 secs, 5 secs, 15 secs, 30 secs. Since you have everything in focus, you might have used f-22, but you can increase sharpness in the foreground by using hyperfocal techniques.

 

Good luck.

Karen, you obviously had to work with a number of elements to get the right exposure. the best photos I've seen like this are double exposures. one done while there is still a little light left to exposure for the building and landscape, and another done to expose for the building lights. there are some obvious complications to this method, but it turns a nice scene like yours into a work of art. I agree that the lights are a little blown out, but the colors on the water are especially nice. i'm going a 5 and a 6 for rating.

Under my modest point of view, I find quite diffcult to accept the water colour reflections if any digital enhancement was applied. Correct me please, if that was not a photoshop work. Anyway the final result is quite positive.

Excellent shot with great dramatic color and presence.

the play of color is beautiful. This would be a good portfolio piece if larger and crisper. Nice job