Ghostly Confusion

[Mr Yuck]

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HDR in downtown Petaluma, not sure about the pole on the right, crop or no?

Composition? Exposure? Etc.

The tattered appearance of the flag, ghostly cars, and contradictory traffic signal are all by products of the multiple exposures for HDR.

[CLKunst]

Definitely crop it. You've got some great colors and tones at work here and the ghosty after images do look cool. Crop it, you'll gain more than you lose.

[Copy_Kot]

I like this image a lot! I love the exposure and comp.

I think the light pole needs to go but I'm afraid you will lose the right side of the street which adds a lot to the image. I would try very hard to clone it out before I did any cropping.

If you can fix the keystone effect on the corner building, it would make a great image even better.

[Frog]

When hand cropping the pic, I find I like it both ways with a bit of a favor toward leaving it.
Its not that distracting and frames and gives depth to the photo. just my humble opinion.

[swmdrayfan]

I'd say not bad---certainly beyond my capabilities

[readingr]

This is really nice, love the colours and the ghostly images. Bet this looks great in poster size - must play with HDR when I get software that can do it.

As for cropping - I would say clone - because you'd crop too much out, I would crop to where the post meets the roof on the right and then clone the sky over the pole.

Roger