-converted from Raw
-levels
-selective color
-hue/saturation
-cloned out a very
minor line under middle tree
This was one beautiful night for a photographer. The fog covered the city streets like a blanket and the glow from the street lamps was amazing!
Hope others like this!
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Place: 28 out of 188 Avg (all users): 6.2193 Avg (commenters): 6.6000 Avg (participants): 5.8148 Avg (non-participants): 6.5283 Views since voting: 1332 Views during voting: 325 Votes: 187 Comments: 7 Favorites: 0
First Impressions: Nice clear reflection and symmetry, and I like the softness of the shot. The cool blues compliment the warm glow of the light nicely (though I wonder if that was done in PS). I like the fence with the triangles too. Adds something different to the shot. Not sure about the visual composition of the shot... it's cut right in half, and while I'm not saying you should always follow the "rules" of photography, but in this case I don't feel that breaking them was helpful. It also feels just slightly tilted down towards the left? I think I would have liked to see a human element in this shot... a silhouetted person walking perhaps?
After reading all of the comments: Ahh, so the coloring was done in post processing. It feels natural (which is a compliment to the way you did it), until you think about it more logically. I'm surprised you only got a few comments, and they didn't really say much, and I also see that you had a spike of voters that gave you a 6. Perhaps that means that technically and visually the shot was good, a little above average, but just nothing that reached out and grabbed the viewer visually or emotionally.
Ideas to improve the shot: First, check to see if it really is tilted. I think the reflection of the fence might be straight, but the ground is tilted? Perhaps trying to tone down the hot spots where the lights are lit would give this shot the ability to have more of a soft, foggy feel, instead of having spots the eye is drawn in to. And, to the left, there seems to be some busy windows, the lamp, the sign... perhaps cropping just a tad from the left to have the shot end with that quiet tree would be a nice change?
Overall, this is a nice shot, and it's lucky you had the weather cooperate so nicely for this challenge. You had a good score and a nice finish with this one, but I think it just lacked that little something extra to get the voters to give you that bump.
Hope this has been helpful, and please feel free to PM me if you have any questions.
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