[divyaprasan]

Night skyline of NYC captured from Hoboken, NJ... Please advise on what could be improved in this pic.

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[DeadJohn]

That's a good shot considering the 18-55 is a basic kit lens with limited sharpness.

• The building lights south of the Empire State Building (right half of the image) don't have much color to them. I might try an alternate composition with the ESB shifted right, moving the colors on the left more into the frame.
• The sky looks a little blotchy but I think that's because of jpg compression on the forum, not anything you can control. Your original probably looks better.
• Was this cropped to the wide format from a single 18mm image, or did you stitch several 55mm images together? It's not important for on-screen viewing but if you ever want to print very large stitching can give a lot more resolution.

[divyaprasan]

That's a good shot considering the 18-55 is a basic kit lens with limited sharpness.

• The building lights south of the Empire State Building (right half of the image) don't have much color to them. I might try an alternate composition with the ESB shifted right, moving the colors on the left more into the frame.
• The sky looks a little blotchy but I think that's because of jpg compression on the forum, not anything you can control. Your original probably looks better.
• Was this cropped to the wide format from a single 18mm image, or did you stitch several 55mm images together? It's not important for on-screen viewing but if you ever want to print very large stitching can give a lot more resolution.

Thanks DeadJohn, for your feedback! I did crop this to a wide format from a single image.. I thought I would have ESB in the center as there was a boat (well lit) further left of the image that was distracting and had to be cropped out..

[wildman]

Please advise on what could be improved in this pic

Bringing out more detail in the water might be an improvement...

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Last edited by wildman; 02-06-2015 at 03:24 AM.

[divyaprasan]

Thanks Wildman! The second pic is a slightly modified version of the same image with better contrast this time.