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May 02, 2008 19:05 |  #1

What do you think?


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May 02, 2008 21:14 |  #2

Either there is a lot of light pollution in Yonkers or the sky had a low overcast on the night that you made the shot. If you can get a clear night so that the sky is darker, I think that it would help. Overall, I think that it is a good shot with a good exposure level. The lights do not appear to be overly blown out which is good. It appears that the sharpening is rather strong and reducing it might help.


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May 02, 2008 21:28 |  #3

Its to red for me,,,,shoot it again during a full moon


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May 03, 2008 08:41 |  #4

Is this any better?


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May 03, 2008 12:17 as a reply to  @ jpon2's post |  #5

No, my opinion is that you went the wrong way in trying to improve it. Actually, I don't think that the image can be made better than it is in your original post.


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May 03, 2008 12:44 |  #6

I have to agree, the first one is too orange/red to begin with and in the second shot you made it even worse. My suggestion would be to either reprocess the RAW file (assuming you shot it in RAW) and mess around with the setting until you find a more neutral color balance (maybe try "florescent" to neutralize the orange or just play with the "Tint" adjustments) -or- trying using something like the White Neutralizer filter in Nik Color Efex Pro (it's a Photoshop plugin).

It's an otherwise nice image, but the color is just waaaaaay off. I do believe it can be fixed, but you'll have to work with it a bit.

BTW...if the color does actually look correct to you on your own monitor, you might want to check your monitor's calibration too...I'm not saying this is actually the problem, but it's amazing how many people get really bad color simply because their monitor's outta whack.

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May 03, 2008 16:04 |  #7

Image looks too warm. Reduce the color temp to tungsten and it should look much more natural.


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May 03, 2008 22:36 as a reply to  @ Titus213's post |  #8

Here is an edit which was done primarily in ACR.


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May 04, 2008 22:09 |  #9

i think the orginal color was great, but the composition is off. I'm really diggin the buildings, but you cut them off too soon.




  
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