The last shot I took that day. Didn't do much on the post processing. Burned/cloned out some street lights and car lights, blurred the edges of the buildings, neat imaged, adjusted levels a bit then layered onto the original with a 50% opacity and selective sharpened on the main subject.
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This is really nice. I would also crop a little differently to cut out some of the blackness..just a bit. I think it also seems like it needs the tiniest bit of counter-clockwise rotation. Very well seen and good idea for the challenge. It turned out nicely just the way it is.
I love this shot and couldn't figure out why it didn't quite work and/or place higher. I think it may have had to do with the aspect ratio you chose to use. It seems to be close to a 4x5 (8x10) frame but not quite. I would suggest trying it either as a 5x7 or 4x6 and thus eliminating the slightly too overwhelming darkness of the "natural frame" of the buildings to what is a powerful and dramatic composition.
Striking composition. The looming canyon of the framing buildings creates an original & effective point of view of the subject. The fact that it is one of my favourite buildings makes me like it even more.
Great use of selective focus! Also beautiful colors and good composition. Only thing I'd change is to reduce the width of the black surround by a bit, maybe one cm on each side - 8
Completely exquisite...wonderful lush color and velvety rich blacks...also very effective as an abstract...also, the black makes me think of this as an unfinished painting, or a painting that was finished and is being painted over with black, just a really nice simple composition...this is certainly on of my favorites
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