Final Edit On Landscape Picture

Okay, so I finally finished up my Skyline picture of the city. As far as the editing goes, yay or nay?

Looks super to me - maybe ease up on the sky exposure as it is a bit blown. Should be easy to mask the buildings given the straight lines and apply exposure adjustment just to the sky/clouds.
Would also leave the converging verticals (buildings) as is.....they are soo far away it looks a bit unnatural if they are all too straight.
Good job!

Spike44 wrote in post #12307331
Looks super to me - maybe ease up on the sky exposure as it is a bit blown. Should be easy to mask the buildings given the straight lines and apply exposure adjustment just to the sky/clouds.
Would also leave the converging verticals (buildings) as is.....they are soo far away it looks a bit unnatural if they are all too straight.
Good job!

Could you explain this more?

wardzach2007 - notice how the buildings are leaning towards the centre (perspective or vertical convergence). This can be avoided depending on the lens you use or fixed in PP to be straighter - but will affect the rest of the photo. I am anticipating others comments on this to correct it - all I am saying is it looks OK to me...it is not all that bad.

I'd do some more work on pulling down the highlights a bit...some of the buildings are blending into the sky and large cloud, losing some definition (you'd need to be careful with the reflections in the glass as well...they can't be brighter than the sky).

The scene probably would have worked much better without the bus on the bridge.

We can tell that you've spent some time on this image but, you might want to consider re shooting the scene with the following in mind: Use a longer lens to rid yourself of the converging roofs that everyone has mentioned.
Or, if you only have a WA lens, you don't mention what PP software you use, use your perspective control tool to spread the rooftops to the point that they are parallel.
Also, you might want to use curves or levels to inject some darker tones into the scene.

Okay, that's what I thought it meant. I was using 10-22mm lens on this one. Maybe that was the distortion?

I took out everything but the bus because I didn't know how too. I took out everything else in the picture as far as distractions go but the bus was out of my skill level on CS5. lol

Check out this link to get MFT Characteristics on your lens http://www.canon-europe.com …n/ef_lens_work_​iii_en.asp it will give you an idea of why I always use a long lens for landscape work, to the point of photomerging if necessary.

wardzach2007 wrote in post #12308755
Okay, that's what I thought it meant. I was using 10-22mm lens on this one. Maybe that was the distortion?

I took out everything but the bus because I didn't know how too. I took out everything else in the picture as far as distractions go but the bus was out of my skill level on CS5. lol

You did good though. As was said, the buildings need to contrast more with the sky. What I would do is pick a dusk time and re-shoot it, and also try one at night. It seems to be a good location though.

I have the 10-22 also. It's great lens.