"The Schooner In The Window…” (NYC)

[enezdez14 5]

D850
f/4.5
ISO 64
1/320 Sec.
24 - 70 mm - f/2.8G
24 mm
(Processed In LR & Color Efex Pro 4)

Thanks For Looking Any Comments/Criticism Will Be Appreciated.


Enezdez

 

[DaPOPO]

I like it, maybe just a little more exposure for the outside part of the picture... I like catching it between the windows...

 

[smoke665]

Like this a lot. Shame the point on that deck wasn't pointing at the boat, that would have been over the top. Agree with the previous comment that a tad increase might be in order. Maybe use the luminosity tool, clicking and dragging the outside slightly?

 

[Derrel]

Agreed, A nice photograph. As good as it is, I think it needs a little bit more brightness outdoors.

 

[enezdez14 5]

I like it, maybe just a little more exposure for the outside part of the picture... I like catching it between the windows...

Like this a lot. Shame the point on that deck wasn't pointing at the boat, that would have been over the top. Agree with the previous comment that a tad increase might be in order. Maybe use the luminosity tool, clicking and dragging the outside slightly?

Agreed, A nice photograph. As good as it is, I think it needs a little bit more brightness outdoors.

Thank you all for your input - I increased exposure from the previous level...I think the outside is a bit brighter while retaining the blacks...

Please tell me what you think?

Thanks Again!!!

 

[Derrel]

I think the brighter look helps. I think however that a slightly more-even illumination across the frame would elevate this to another level. I think removing any trace of vignette introduced wither by the lens or in processing would add realism, and improve the impact of the picture. I "get" the idea of this shot however, I totally do.

 

[smoke665]

Please tell me what you think?

Great improvement. In addition to other comments, might try dropping the highlights just a bit, raise the shadows, clarity and dehaze just a tad, then use the adjustment brush to heal some of the highlight reflections on the glass.

 

[Derrel]

Please tell me what you think?

Great improvement. In addition to other comments, might try dropping the highlights just a bit, raise the shadows, clarity and dehaze just a tad, then use the adjustment brush to heal some of the highlight reflections on the glass.

Nope. I cannot agree with healing the highlight reflections on the glass...the highlight reflections add realism. This sort of modern urban landscape photography, which first appeared around 1969 or so, is based on realistic depictions of the modern world. "Healing" something as visually revealing as a reflection is the wrong course of action in this style of landscape photography. it's like polarizing away the "surface reflection" on the water surface of a creek or river, eliminating the reflection that provided depth cues, and revealing the bottom rocks of the riverbed, while eliminating the reflection that says, "water surface". In this case, the reflections indicate something "real". The entire idea is that we are looking through windows; eliminating reflections on them eliminates the depiction's accuracy.

Anyway...as much as I think the second rework is better than the first, I still do thing that more balancing of the image's overall parameters could be done; it needs to be presented 'just so', in perfect balance, the balance ebtween the exterior light level and the interior light levels. As-shown, it's still a bit heavy-handed, with too much shadow densitry, and not quite the expanded, wide dynamic range that this type of shot looks best in. As-shown, the tonal range, the tone curves too, are not quite fully optimized.

See Joel Meyerowitz's book "Cape Light" from around 1980 to see what perfectly-balanced, wide-DR images look like on modern seascapes. His big "schtick" was using color negative film, back when almost all "serious photography" was done with narrower dynamic range color transparency film.

 

[smoke665]

Nope. I cannot agree with healing the highlight reflections on the glass

True, but I think they could be retained in a more subtle manner.

 

[Derrel]

Nope. I cannot agree with healing the highlight reflections on the glass

True, but I think they could be retained in a more subtle manner.

Or they could be enhanced, and thus more in-tune with this type of modern landscape photography. The OP is showing us a mundane, everyday type of scene. I think that emphasizing the actual,real location is the way to go with this, not beautifying it. The way I se e things, there exists a philosophical difference between not-repairing the shot and healing brush work, one philosophy being the one that emphasizes photography, the other concerned more with beautifying and falsifying the scene using software "fixes".

I see the OP's photo as an elevation of the reality of the location, the reflections being a reality that occurs when one shoots through windows. Making the windows less-obvious is the wrong tack, for this shot, IMO. At least if one wants to keep it honest, and keep the shot within its genre's typical goals. Others might disagree with this, for sure.

While we're at it, we could composit-in a new sky, and a sexier boat as well...

See William Eggleston - Wikipedia

 

[smoke665]

While we're at it, we could composit-in a new sky, and a sexier boat as well...

And maybe accessorize the boat with a couple of bikini clad babes???? I get where you're coming from and agree on most of the reflections, the only ones that really set off the OCD are what appears to be two light fixtures just above the horizon on the right side. For some reason they keep drawing my eye away from what is a really nice composition.