Sunset over Downtown

GRbenji · Oct 13, 2011

Took these yesterday evening. C&C are welcome.

#1

#2

Majeed Badizadegan · Oct 13, 2011

Nice images. Really don't like the black lines where your copyright is. Rather see more picture.

Oh, and I favor the night one.

GRbenji · Oct 13, 2011

Rotanimod said:
Nice images. Really don't like the black lines where your copyright is. Rather see more picture.

Oh, and I favor the night one.

Thanks Rotanimod, and me too prefer #2.

Didn't get you regarding the black lines (or bars). They are borders added in only and don't cover any part of the image.

GRbenji · Oct 13, 2011

#3 - Chinatown. Taken few days earlier in the late evening when a storm was brewing.

Bynx · Oct 14, 2011

Really good processing. I prefer the night shots. If you can do again with a little less brightness in the sky then the street and building lighting will really pop.

889Media · Oct 14, 2011

Number 2 and 3 are really good! I like them! Nice colors. But as "Bynx" before me, I too have some thoughts about the sky. But for me it is that in #3, the sky looks a bit unreal. Looks like it got damaged a bit during processing.

I am sure you used several shots together to make number 3. Can see something that appears like ghosting. Maybe if you take one of your best shots of the sky for that image and put in on top, and adjust the colors etc to go with the rest of the shot - and use layer masks or something so that you just keep the sky - I think that will give you an all over much better image!

Nice shots anyways!

robertandrewphoto · Oct 15, 2011

Maybe I'm just weird but I like the first one the best, I just wish there was more detail on the skyscrapers.

The first one does seem to be the "realest" to me, so that might by why I like that one more.

PatrickJamesYu · Oct 15, 2011

Wow really cool
I like these.

You have any words to describe what you did here?
How many exposures?
Programs?

GRbenji · Oct 15, 2011

Bynx said:
Really good processing. I prefer the night shots. If you can do again with a little less brightness in the sky then the street and building lighting will really pop.

Thanks Bynx for the feedback. Will try again when time permits.

889Media said:
Number 2 and 3 are really good! I like them! Nice colors. But as "Bynx" before me, I too have some thoughts about the sky. But for me it is that in #3, the sky looks a bit unreal. Looks like it got damaged a bit during processing.

I am sure you used several shots together to make number 3. Can see something that appears like ghosting. Maybe if you take one of your best shots of the sky for that image and put in on top, and adjust the colors etc to go with the rest of the shot - and use layer masks or something so that you just keep the sky - I think that will give you an all over much better image!

Nice shots anyways!

Thanks 889media for your feedback. Moving clouds always give me problem. Still not good enough with CS layer masking, so concern may mess it up worse. Let me brush up CS skill first.

robertandrewphoto said:
Maybe I'm just weird but I like the first one the best, I just wish there was more detail on the skyscrapers.

The first one does seem to be the "realest" to me, so that might by why I like that one more.

Thanks Robert. Guess everyone has different taste.

PatrickJamesYu said:
Wow really cool
I like these.

You have any words to describe what you did here?
How many exposures?
Programs?

Thanks Patrick. Usually between 5-9 exposures. Wider DR, more exposures. But with moving objects, will try to minimize the exposures needed. Have both Photomatix and HDR Efex Pro, but use mainly HDR Efex plugin for CS5.