The Austin Skyline -- CC welcome
What a sky! Thank you for not putting the horison in the middle like I see people do with reflections all the time.
But you challenged me and I WILL find something to crit.
I think i would have put the bulk of the buildings more off centre, by moving one more building to the right.
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Lounge GuruHassner wrote: I think i would have put the bulk of the buildings more off centre, by moving one more building to the right.
Thank you (and tganiats) for your kind words.
The skyline is the skyline, unfortunately.
The challenge here is balancing my position, the buildings, and the sunset (which was almost directly left in this shot). This is actually not even close to what I was intending But it is what it is, right?Glad you like the shot.
Don: I love the sky, too, but there's no other foreground interest other than the reflection. That would make for a less interesting image, IMO. You'll note that the current composition falls into the rule of thirds, both horizontally and vertically. Yes, a more panoramic crop would be fine, too, but I need to look at the image in this ratio, or even 4x5 or 5x6.
Kelly: Nope. There are cranes just to the left; I didn't want to include them. And this pretty much encompasses all of the tall buildings in central Austin, anyway. And I would never put them dead center.
Barbara: Sure thing. Here are the originals, one for the sky, the other a bit later for the buildings. These are not SOOC; they've been through LR but not PS. After doing some plug-in work on both, I ended up using the sky from the second in overlay mode in PS and adjusting for the effect I wanted. I'm pretty happy with the result.
Takennnn wrote: I think it is a good shot, I'd have like to have seen another shot with the water being even smoother. Possibly a heavy ND filter to get the waves/water to be much smoother, it could make the symmetry between the actual buildings and reflections that much stronger.
Thanks. Unfortunately, with the ripples by the far shore (and thus most of the movement of the water), I would never have gotten an even texture top to bottom, no matter how long an exposure. Wasn't worth trying. I rather like the reality of the water here, and (IMO) helps to place the viewer in the scene.
It's really never not breezy or windy here
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