First Light

Excellent work, John ... composition and colors are really good. Best regards.

This is beautiful my friend.

This time of the day gives me a lot of relaxed feelings and I love its atmosphere.

You have nailed the exposure and must have been very hard one to engineer and to design the required composition for it, by all means you did what no one else could do better and you left no room for any one to say other wise, a wonderful image and so pleasant to view.

Thank you my friend for sharing it and wishing you all of the best.

Fantastic interplay with magical exposure, subtle colors, different direction of  lines & great perspective, John, very beautiful moment!     Best regards

Beautiful capture of that moment John,excellent composition and amazing colours,lovely piece of work,Harry

I really like the angle and perspective of the composition, the graduated size of the of the lamps, crossing the graduated colours of the sky in a most complimentry fashion. I can't really offer any suggestions for improvement as this is great the way it is, but for an alternative shot, it might have been interesting to keep the camera on a tripod in the same position, then take another shot when the lights come on, and possibly blending the two.

Nice work John!

Kind Regards

Alf

Excellent, John!

  Excelente luz, color y gran composición, Muy bonita imagen, saludos John.

Beautiful sky colors and I love the way the line of lights leads into the horizon very naturally.

Very beautiful capture! Im impressed of contrasting colors at horizon and the f/g elements, and also composition/perspective you artfully executed here. Bravo.

Hamid.

Hi everybody and thank you for all for visiting and your contributions. In this shot I exposed and metered directly on the sky and swithced the white balance to Tungsten. Using a wide angle lens, tilted upwards I had converging lamp posts which I corrected using photoshop. I lost some of the picture edges due to this, which I gained back using cloning. No colour alterations were applied as I was satisfied with the RAW colours obtained. I lightened the foreground to get back just enough detail.

Tony -  Using two exposures as you siad one with lights on, and one without would have made the picture much better and thanks alot for suggesting it. I have done this a number of times during the film days. The only hitch is that you have to wait approx an hour leaving the camera on the tripod. If you're out for just one picture than it is definately worth it as the results are fantastic. Honestly I forgot about this technique, and you have reminded me about it.

Thank you all and best regards,

John

Hello

Excellent composition and sky. Well done.

Paul

Great composition with the lampposts and the fence leading your eye into the picture. And the beautiful coloured sunset makes this very special.

Sidsel

Wonderful shot, John...beautiful sky with its awesome colors...you captured the sky brilliantly... against this dramatic backdrop the perspective of the railings and the light posts vanishes into the blue...brilliant composition indeed...well done...my best