Verrazano Narrows Bridge Sunset 05

Looks great! I like the inclusion of the tree branches; they provide a nice feeling of depth. Regards.

Very pretty shot for sure. I question the integraty of having a shot rated very many times then modifying a major factor such as you have here. A slight overlooked touch up yes but something that comprises a central element like tower perspective should be reserved for a subsequent release in my view... not to be called "perfect" many times, occupy a spot on page #1 then "perfectED".

 

My main comment was to be the obvious overblown contrast causing the sun halo. Indicates a poor exposure that must be compensated for in ps with high adjust levels.

 

It is a very pretty picture Yongbo yet it is offered as a photograph to be judged on photographic quality and not just pretty appeal, so hope u understand my reservations. 4/6

Composition and colors are excellent in this photo. Congrats.

lovely colors and good composition - a mood picture - but tell me how much nature is in it and how much photoshop??????????

Colour is gorgeous. I wonder how it would have looked in the horizontal mode.

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...or greatly enhanced in PS? -- it somehow looks too perfect to be true. In any event, I'm not sure the use of both a polarizer and a grad neutral-density filters did the picture any good: the sky at the top (and the bottom) is too dark to my taste.

A great short absolutely. For now, it is just perfect! If you want to darker here and brightener there, ok, your freedom, a view is a view, no art is absolutely perfect. I accept this one as a great beautiful photographic image. I will use all the tools available in the market to make a nice shot, include filters, adjustment with ps, which is offered to TODAY's photographers, lucky us. All today's modern digital camera request "sharpen" in post production... sure if your original image looks so terrible, throw it away, don't waste time in post production. So, let's don't be shy, use it, and happy shooting!

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I am trying to adjust the color close to the print out. I have an Epson 1270 and also go to Costco. The prints are very close to what I see on the screen. I am using 3 CRTs, Acer G772, Sony/Dell P1110, HP MX70 and 2 Laptop (Acer and Dell). Did not realize any difference until I showed this picture to my friend today. The halo looks horrible on the 16-bit CRT display. I am glad to accept the 4/6 from Paul Greenwood, I am not sure how to handle the halo in Photoshop yet. The profile used in PS is not the same one from the camera. The reflection is the PS work.

It's amazing to me all the disscusion of is it Photoshoped or isn't it.... Photography is art and in my small opinion it dosn't matter if you did the work in photoshop or the darkroom! Isn't the end result the work of the photographer? Thier vision of the scene, a photograph is not a copy of world as the eye sees it but is in the end a interpetation of what the photographer wants us to see. Again just my opinion, I like this and I wish I could do it! Regards :-)

Good work!

In my view after carefully studying this image it comes down to just one word. BOGuS.

 

Zoom and look... the bridge piling is sitting in mid air not in water. What are the odds a perfect cursor cut line from bridge piling to right edge is an exact match of elevation in the real world?

 

Brighten 50 points and overhead branches reflect ps flip rather than natural skew. No water on earth is this calm over this distance. This is a bridge... crosses into Brooklyn NY. No river sits perfectly stagnant theres always current. Hudson river (?) has extreme barge traffic and flows into the Atlantic..its a tidal delta, water always moves......What we see here is an apline lake stillness..... Even dropped contrast 100 points that halo wont go away. The halo is nothing more than extreme contrast...not a nuke explostion.

 

Image is on page 1 of the worlds biggst site and undergone a perspective change to correct major flaws, before your very eyes. All rates applied before this modification are nullified. Those rates were applied based on perspective, and besides being wrong, an inferior image is cemented into a top spot it shouldn't have been in to begin with...... and now levels are being messed with. Meanwhile 27 7/7 being reaped upon it as a "perfect" image. What part of PERFECT can't be understood here?

 

Well Yongbo good for you. It is a very pretty "creation" and i'm not trying to take that away. You presented a photo here to be judged and that can only be done objectivly...With all these flaws it amuses to sit back and look at the 27 ideals of perfection. Oviously the outcrys of 7/7!!! by those listed speak of little photo knowledge and their judging is based on eye candy only. Not all have the time to disect a pic but possibly if they could take their mind off the flash and start using common lodgic the bells would begin to ring..again Yongbo its very pretty to me.... just glad i'm not on that list.

If you followed this series Paul as I have, you would have already known these were quite manipulated. However, in my opinion the finished image is simply outstanding...as are most from this set. I respect your opinion, but disagree with this being average. Furthermore, if this were put out for sale, most customers would not blink for a second. I have seen other artists out here in Hawaii sell even more obvious Photoshop creations than this, and sell them by the boatloads. But hey, this is why they make more than one ice cream flavor. Different types for different likes, I reckon... Aloha.

Just one question about the exposure, is it correct?

Yongbo i can only speculate it is. It appears the colour is nothing more than cast after running balance. If you take any shot and run auto colour balance with ps,psp...with remove cast on..on a normal exposure it will correct the imbalance of scanner or particularly digital shots. They don't have the high end filters required on most, so are ps dependant. If the whole deal turns like what posted well obviously its so underexposed theres nothing but serpia look. If you take the absolute perfect exposure in other words, run balance, there is no change at all.

 

 

Vincent i agree totally its a highly beauty pic. Would it sell? Well black velvet Elvis's go like hotcakes. What does "sell" have to do with anything on an amature learning site? And you know who "buys"...those with no clue. I doubt any photographer on this site goes out and buys pics, their too obsessed with i can do that better, for free. Its echoed in forum posts about the quality on page 1...rah rah rah go in and expose the misconceptions so everybody actually learns something instead of one liner praises... then when u do that your the bad guy....and Yongbo..i admire your objectivity and honesty, very cool.

 

Your a top photographer Vince... is this shot underexposed?

Quite nice colors, and a pretty interesting PS work too, because the raw file looks quite drab. How about cropping some off the bottom - perhaps even a square composition ?

My take: while I have absolutely nothing against using the whole arsenal of tricks, their use either shouldn't be noticeable or--if obvious--should serve some special purpose that would justify it, e.g., evoke specific emotions. Regardless which of the two categories a manipulated picture falls into, considering the purpose of this site, it would be nice if a photographer stated upfront what have been altered/added/etc.

This particular picture strives to be in the 'look-like-real' category, but PS work clearly isn't that great if I--someone with no working knowledge of PS techniques--managed to figure out that the image looks somewhat artificial (i.e., fixing what have actually been captured worked very well = you've fooled me; creating was wasn't there in the first place is what didn't quite work.)

If you are the reseller, I guess Vincent might pick iPod, Paul might pick BOSE. I am going to sell the docking system. I am a fan of Vincent, but I also like "Yin and Yang" from Paul. Regards, Yongbo

maravillosa imagen, colorido y composicion de cine, felicidades, un saludo

Muy bueno, me gustan mucho los negros con los azules

felicidades

This is my favorite in this series...beautiful colors and refection no matter how it was achieved....i like it...i would put it on my wall.

I second that Kristin.

Hay Yong i'm an Infinity guy lol..please check my new ones for valentines thanks.