after sunset

The long exposure of the car and pedestrians in the street left the

lanterns badly overexposed. A second image exposed for the lanterns

and the two images were merged manually in Photoshop. Close inspection

shows I still have to work a bit on the blending technique.

Thanks for comments.

Christoph - I like what you did here - it is very colorful. No two photographers will interpret a scene in an identical way and I find that fascinating and inspirational. I have made a crop and I lightened some parts of the crop. I never claim that mine is better but different and you can decide if you like it or not. As you see I cropped away the left side even though I like the houses but found the short trailing lights (prefer to have it trail a long way) a little distracting.

Not sure if you will find this helpful or not.

All the very best and keep up your fine work.

Hi Tony, thanks for your comments and for going through the trouble of working with my image. I haven't been very active on photo.net for a few months (too much other stuff to do) and it took me a while to see your comment.

It's been a while since I took the image, but I recall enjoying the mix between the red and white lamps in the trees, the last light of the day as well as the light from the cars and the houses. The almost empty streets with a few people waking on it defined the place for me since I had come from some very busy cities where no one even thought about walking in the streets after sunset since they were either too busy or a bit on the sketchy side.

Today I would probably follow your lead and lighten the trees a bit, but then, the two images need to be aligned properly (as you may have found out yourself).

In any case, I like your version!

Thanks , Christoph