World Trade Center (Page 2): It took about three minutes to do. There is a slight misalignment of some of the horizontal bars but I left that as I wanted to see how quickly I could...

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

It took about three minutes to do. There is a slight misalignment of some of the horizontal bars but I left that as I wanted to see how quickly I could make an acceptable version. I also removed the red & white bollard.

Graham

Jim Peters Loc: Pittsburgh

I Like It!

Nightski

Graham Smith wrote:

It took about three minutes to do. There is a slight misalignment of some of the horizontal bars but I left that as I wanted to see how quickly I could make an acceptable version. I also removed the red & white bollard.

Graham

Nice job Graham.

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

Graham Smith wrote:

It took about three minutes to do. I also removed the red & white bollard.

Well done!

RMM Loc: Suburban New York

Let's try this again, this time with the image

I cropped out the buildings on the left. To me, it gives a different look, highlights the WTC more.

Also, the road on the left is more prominent, and provides a leading line.

If your software allows you to do lens correction, it seems that perspective is a bit off; the WTC seems straight, but the buildings on the right seem to be leaning in.

Nightski

I like your view on this one, RMM. It leads my eye more to the tallest building. I think you are right. the buildings on the left do distract.

waltchilds Loc: Central Florida

Thanks for posting this shot, I like the leading lines of the road and trees leading up to the WTC and think you did a good job with the composition. I also learned a lot from the other comments and suggestions that will help me in my future photos.

jteee Loc: Montana

Graham Smith wrote:

It took about three minutes to do. There is a slight misalignment of some of the horizontal bars but I left that as I wanted to see how quickly I could make an acceptable version. I also removed the red & white bollard.

Graham

Wow, looks like I need to start learning how to clone.

jteee Loc: Montana

RMM wrote:

Let's try this again, this time with the image

I cropped out the buildings on the left. To me, it gives a different look, highlights the WTC more.

Also, the road on the left is more prominent, and provides a leading line.

If your software allows you to do lens correction, it seems that perspective is a bit off; the WTC seems straight, but the buildings on the right seem to be leaning in.

I had hesitated to take the buildings on the left out of the shot, but I really do like this version better. I had used the road as my leading line, but you appear to have used the trees which seems more effective. Thanks for taking the time to look at this photo.

MtnMan Loc: ID

jteee wrote:

Had the opportunity to visit NYC last week, so packed camera, and attempted big buildings. Don't have these out here, so this was first attempt. From a compositional perspective, as well as technical, I would sure love some thoughts.

Nice shot in some rare weather! The road leading in is great. Might try cropping a small amount from the left and bottom to center the subject more on the thirds line.

PS: I see RMM moved in that direction. My suggestion is to try splitting the difference.

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

jteee wrote:

Had the opportunity to visit NYC last week, so packed camera, and attempted big buildings. Don't have these out here, so this was first attempt. From a compositional perspective, as well as technical, I would sure love some thoughts.

Composition is just okay for me---it could use a little more interest. Perhaps getting closer to the foreground trees? Also, it appears the WB is off a bit and it is slightly under exposed. There seems to be quite a bit of noise as well---not sure if that was created in post?

jteee Loc: Montana

jteee wrote:

I had hesitated to take the buildings on the left out of the shot, but I really do like this version better. I had used the road as my leading line, but you appear to have used the trees which seems more effective. Thanks for taking the time to look at this photo.

So, I went back to my original file, and for the life of me I can't crop the buildings on the left out of the photo without taking out the top of the WTC. RMM, what the heck did you do, or how did you do it. I use LR4 for my PP.

mdorn Loc: Portland, OR

jteee wrote:

So, I went back to my original file, and for the life of me I can't crop the buildings on the left out of the photo without taking out the top of the WTC. RMM, what the heck did you do, or how did you do it. I use LR4 for my PP.

He probably did not constrain proportions.

jteee Loc: Montana

mdorn wrote:

Composition is just okay for me---it could use a little more interest. Perhaps getting closer to the foreground trees? Also, it appears the WB is off a bit and it is slightly under exposed. There seems to be quite a bit of noise as well---not sure if that was created in post?

Thanks for your comments. I used the LR4 Daylight WB for this photo, but have also looked at Shade (which is less blue). I'm not sure where the noise is from, I did reduce the hightlights significantly to attempt to balance the radical contrast from sky to shaded street. I agree with getting closer to the foreground, unfortunately this was as close as I could get without standing in the middle of the street (and in NYC that can be rather interesting from a personal safety standpoint).

jteee Loc: Montana

mdorn wrote:

He probably did not constrain proportions.

Yeah, I just figured that out. I had to introduce a custom aspect ration and it gave me what he did. Thanks.