Anticipation

were those lights dropped in with photoshop?

Lack's Drama or interest to my eye, exposure is perfect!

Lack's Drama or interest to my eye, exposure is perfect!

Tom, the lights were there, not from PhotoShop. No manipulation in this photo except cropping. Want to express the Anticipation

I am also very curious about photos without digital manipulations would have a chance these days, or I should go heavily into manipulation that it is almost NOT photography anymore.

Thanks for your comment.

Very interesting. I've made some concert photos and this brings me a lot of memories. Good composition.

 

UnPSed photos DO have a chance. This could be faked, but I don't think it would get any better, and probably some details wouldn't be so nice. If I were going to chance the process of making this photo, I'd rather go there and schedule a photo session than making this up digitally.

 

I think this is well done and sets a mood of expectation.

nice image........

photoshop?

I cannot understand why so many people immediately think of photoshop when looking at this photo. I don't see any very strange, or unnatural, or hard to capture visual effect here. I guess that dropping those lights in photoshop might even be marginally more difficult to do that actually photographing them.

 

In any case, on to the picture, while not earth-shaking, it does bear the notion upon which you want to build. It is a capture of this weird moment before the great moment. The lights kick in, the stage is set, we are anticipating the show. I have seen another image, very similar to this one, in photo.net, and I remember that it had the exact same feeling. I think it was a bit tighter-cropped with almost identical colours and it worked better, at least for my eyes. (maybe it was yours, too, I can't remember the photographer and it was a long time ago to seek it in my comments) Overall, it is not an outstanding photo, but it's onto something, it does have a direction and an idea behind it, and that idea is clearly visible.

Nikos analyzed this image quite well and I agree with his points. I think its a great moment that you captured. It has a very nice element of anticipation that I really like. Nice job.