The Kitchen

[draymorton]

Any thoughts with regard to composition, treatment, anything else?

http://gallery.photographyreview.com...3/cityview.jpg

Thanks.

[EOSThree]

I tend to be lazy. If it's not imbedded in the post I tend not to look at it.

[draymorton]

Sorry about that. I haven't got the uploading part quite under control. Whenever I tried to upload a photo so that it was embedded in the post, I'd have to reduce the size to nothing before the upload would be accepted. Not sure why.

I asked about this in another thread and someone suggested that I just upload photos to the gallery and link from there.

EDIT: finally figured out how to embed gallery photos in posts. I'm a slow learner.

[Greg McCary]

I like this one a lot. The processing is awesome. Is it an HDR?

[Frog]

Good city landscape shot.

You should be able to embed your photo if it is no more than 800 on a side and quality has to be reduced a bit. In photoshop I can reduce quality to 9 and it takes it. If I put it at 10 it rejects it.

[SmartWombat]

I use Thumbs+ because it will allow me to tune the compression by 100 steps, not 12.
So I can tweak for maximum quality more finely.
Also it saves files a fraction smaller in progressive mode so I can get another 1 point of quality

I wish Lightroom had another feature on its save JPG option, target file size as well as dimensions. Then I could make 800x800 files under the size limit automagically.

[LeeIs]

love this one. the clarity, contrast and composition are great. you've also nailed the exposure. i really have no critiques nor improvements i can think of. Where is this btw?

[susaan]

I can see 3 very distinct layers,horizontal buildings,vertical ones,and sky in a perfect blend
Very nice !

[Lori11]

Beautiful shot! The sky is perfect and contrast is fabulous. Well done! Ok, dumb question...The Kitchen?

[draymorton]

Thanks, everybody.

Lori - "The Kitchen" as in Hell's Kitchen, NYC.

susaan - thanks!

Leels - Thanks - it's good old Manhattan.

Thanks SmartWombat. I'll check it out.

Likewise, Frog. I'll get the hang of it at some point (I hope!).

Greg - it was Adobe CR and CS3. And yup, a little manual HDR on this one to darken the sky (though it didn't need much).

[Ron Kruger]

Stunning!
Don't try to fix it. It ain't broken.

[Lori11]

I figured it was, but your shot is so beautiful I would not have known!