I'm so glad this was well received, it's a shame to leave it without some notes.
It was a magical evening:
I experimented with this one a lot - lucky to catch this dramatic sky, I was totally unprepared for the compositional challenge this image turned out to be. Getting the rain, the three hills and the layers of houses linked to the stadium in a square didn't make much sense initially. I had to change tonality to practically entire town around the stadium, including the parks. Of course, the dramatic sky helps a lot and hopefully distracts the viewer from the composition puzzle :).
In the process, I realized the difference from smooth tones at the top to harsh contrast at the bottom. Still, I sort of liked that, I could justify it with the urban feeling contrasting the nature at the top.
Well I'm glad you folks like it, thank you for the great comments and votes! It was a happy week watching two images do so well.
Statistics
Place: 12 out of 163 Avg (all users): 6.4462 Avg (commenters): 7.3750 Avg (participants): 6.5593 Avg (non-participants): 6.3521 Views since voting: 1308 Views during voting: 215 Votes: 130 Comments: 14 Favorites: 0
Stunning shot with processing that is well out of my league. I don't see how the square crop was necessary or beneficial to this but I'm not voting so it doesn't matter. I'd wager it'll do extremely well.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
