Had one morning to shoot this week, and of course it was a hazy day with not a cloud in the sky. Drove down to the headlands and grabbed some shots of the Golden Gate from above and below. Nothing much going on with the light or the sky, so I waited for one of the container ships to show up. Spent a lot of time in Lightroom and PSElements trying to pop the contrast on this one, and kept going back and forth between too contrasty and too flat til I finally said "FI" and settled on this one, which is about as good as its gonna get.
Prediction: 5.5 in a normal challenge, 5.0 in the DPL. Bleh.
NIK-IMGP-0229-800
Statistics
Place: 77 out of 382 Avg (all users): 6.0253 Avg (commenters): 5.5714 Avg (participants): 5.9333 Avg (non-participants): 6.2075 Views since voting: 1414 Views during voting: 289 Votes: 158 Comments: 10 Favorites: 2 (view)
Really don't like the white border. It's so bright that my eyes are drawn to it rather than your photo. Would have been better to use a white line + black.
(27/38) Very nice. I'm not sure if the barge is a distraction or not. I might like to have seen it not so close to the brige to better balance the composition. Also, the image feels too sharp -- the haloing in the bridge cables, for instance.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
