-4th place! That is AWSOME! (Revised: 3rd place! That is SWEET!)
-Thank you for the comments & votes.
-About the photo-
The city in the background is Waikiki, Hawaii. The palm trees were lit by street lights shorter than the palms highlighting the branches from below. My intentions were to get a dramatic angle and try and lead the viewer’s eye through the image. I learned from my last attempt of palm trees against a night sky with a city below that I needed the trees to stand out from the dark sky. Lucky for me there were a few clouds to add to the composition. I converted to Grayscale first then to duotones, a hint of light brown set it off nicely.
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Place: 2 out of 170 Avg (all users): 7.1195 Avg (commenters): 8.2045 Avg (participants): 6.8052 Avg (non-participants): 7.1981 Views since voting: 8993 Views during voting: 582 Votes: 385 Comments: 70 Favorites: 25 (view)
Ahhh. Kapiolani Park. I was just there Sunday. This is an outstanding shot. I like the duo tone even more than the color version...and I'm a big fan of color. Very impressive work.
My eye is instantly drawn to the top of the front palm tree, which looks great, and then I look back and see the city, which is also really cool! Great composition; the tones work well in this shot. Bump to 10- hope this does well for you.
STUNNING. If I could have given it a 12, I would have. It's a 10 for sure plus more. The palms really add to this and the choice of tones is delicious. I am choosing it as a favorite.
Nice pic, I like the tone of the b&w. It almost looks like you used a flash to illuminate the foreground, you have a hot spot on the first tree, but I don't think you needed it. Perhaps it is coming from street lights.
Beautiful... At first I was going to say it would probably be more beautiful in colors, but.... I don´t know... Perhaps this is better. At least I love it :o)
I really like the different testures the long exposure had given this - nice sharp trees, marshmellow clouds, hard buildings and smooth water and the black sky - 8
Really love the composition of this shot, outstanding in my opinion. I like the use of monotone colour too, but would be keen to see the colour shot too. Well done and good luck!
I really enjoy looking at this shot...you should put this on DCPrints.....probably get some takers. I like the perspective and how the cityline is in the background. My only little gripe is the blownout light in the center of the frame, a little hot. Good luck though, this is great
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