I'm sure this would have looked 100 times better with out the icky, overcast sky, but what can I do? I live in Seattle... this was sort of last minute.. I had to drop my son off at work, and had a few minutes to spare, and happened to be in downtown Bellevue. I wish I had time to go back and reshoot this evening, with beter light, and to try and get the crane reflection to fall more on the 2/3's line.
Statistics
Place: 90 out of 152 Avg (all users): 5.1993 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 5.0323 Avg (non-participants): 5.2488 Views since voting: 741 Views during voting: 369 Votes: 271 Comments: 18 Favorites: 0
This is a neat idea, but yes, the sky is washed out. The building also appears to be leaning slightly since the center line forming the corner isn't perfectly vertical. One last nitpick is that the composition looksa bit too green, so perhaps some color balance adjustment slightly toward the magenta end of the scale would help counter that.
I see from your photographer's comments (and thanks for including those, by the way!) that you'd have preferred to have shot at a different time of day. I hate including that in my comments (but I did anyway) because I fully understand that sometimes you shoot when you can!
this is a nice capture of the impending construction with the tree helps. I wish the sky wasn't blown out quite so much though. The only other thing I would comment is with the title, I know it is part of a song but you have no parking lot in your photo. just my suggestions
Some heavy fringing here of the building and branches on the tree.
Nice idea, and good angle to fit the crane into the reflection like that.
I wonder if it looks better in strong contrasted black and white tones.
This is great! Both the green tree and the reflected image of construction raise questions about whether the austere modern building is really progress. (10)
I rated this photo "2" because it is low resolution and could've been shot with a more interesting angle/perspective. Head-on building shot is pretty plain, although the crane reflection is a nice touch.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
