Shaikh Zayed masjid

Shaikh Zayed MAsjid in AbuDhabi, United Arab Emirates.

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

Interesting shot. I think I would crop the top third or even top half of the sky.

The subject has a huge potential, and you have conceptualized it right. Now it comes to execution, so I'll try to expand a bit on what Gary has suggested above:
*Too much sky, way too little of the subject. From this distance , it could be a missile launch site plus a few nuclear reactor building domes....you see ?
* No need to psychodelic out the sky in photoshop or such. You can keep it natural and neutral because you have got a great silhouette working for you.
* Those minarets and cranes would make quite a combo from a closer distance!
*The sun....well if it is there, try to avoid it...wait til it gets covered by clouds or it sets behind the structures or the horizon....otherwise, the sun steals the exposure from the rest of your composition and away from your real subject.

I hope some of this makes some sense.

Yes, wonderful comments everyone!

I was seperated by a huge body of water and at the time I had my 17 - 40 L and 50 1.8 on me.

Here is some food for thought. Any Arab Muslim, person familiar with the middle east would instantly recognize the architercture. It does look like a missile launch site.

ALso, whats # 2 ? What about PS?

I'd crop it to the lower right. All that sky is doing nothing for the image.

Nice color/texture and silouettes.

KAC

Yep! I'll go along with everone else, nice pic, when I scroll it off the screen it looks really cool as a panoramic.

thanks for the CC everyone!

I love the way it looks now! The crop makes it look panoramic as soupdragon mentioned

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

What about this one?
I love the way the minarets look so sharp and distinguished.

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

CorruptedPhotographer wrote:
thanks for the CC everyone!

I love the way it looks now! The crop makes it look panoramic as soupdragon mentioned

HTTP response: NOT FOUND | MIME changed to 'image/png'

Yep, I like this much better....yep, sure do.

KAC

Saif, the panoramic effect seems to work better.

That is a very cool shot. I really like it once it is cropped.

I'll go against almost all here and say that I like the original version. It portrays how being in the desert could be - a city with all its amenities looming in the horizon, and nothing else but a big expanse of sky. Well captured.

I'm going to have to agree.

Bottom Brackert. Kick, well thats why I posted it the way I did. I also so what you guys saw.

On the other hand, I also see how it is also nice cropped.

I cant wait to photo it when its done