A few from Miami

I've only had my SLR for a few weeks so comments/suggestions very much welcome

Evening - lighthouse

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if these are the results of only a few weeks practice you are well on your way to making some amazing photographs. Already these show huge promise.

#2 is completely stunning to me.

Dirk Funk wrote in post #10831975
if these are the results of only a few weeks practice you are well on your way to making some amazing photographs. Already these show huge promise.

#2 is completely stunning to me.

These amaze me! Especially #2. I completely agree with Dirk Funk.

#1 Horizons tilted and the foreground is underexposed. These thought are a very easy fix in post. All you need is a Levels adjustment layer to bring up the foreground brightness. I'd also crop tighter. There's a lot extra room on the left that can be done without.

#2 Obviously the sunrise and weather are great here. But the interesting part of the image makes up so little of the frame. I want to see how the city, sun and rain play together. I don't need to see all those clouds at the top of the frame and some random back water ways of southern Florida.

#3 Technically this seems pretty good, especially for being handheld. The clouds bother me, mainly because they only are in half the frame. The image feels unbalanced this way. This image could also have benefited from being taken in that little bit of time after sunset when there's still some color in the sky.

Overall thought, good start. Keep shooting and keep learning.

Thanks for the feedback everyone In response to the posting above.

1. The entire picture was horribly underexposed. Unfortunately the light meter registered with the sky... I should have checked them before leaving. If I bright up the exposure any more than that, it looks horribly pixilated. Lessons learned. I don't agree with the crop though. I have a few others that I tried cropped and I like the landscaping on this one.

2. This wasn't taken from a random waterway but from blue lagoon in Miami. I took several other shots that zoomed in to downtown but this one turned out the best. That and the humidity kept fogging the lens glass

3. Thanks. This was my first night skyline shot. I'll make sure to take clouds and other objects that could effect symmetry into consideration next time.

Horizons are off on all of them
I agree...crops would really give these photos better focus on the subjects.and I as well think the second one is unique.but as mentioned, perhaps a pano of the skyline?

The first isn't horribly underexposed. I don't know what you're using for post processing, but all it took was a slight tweak with a levels layer in Photoshop to fix the foreground. I can post it up tonight if you want.

Regardless of what you call the water, it's still extraneous to telling the story of the image. I'm with Flo. Try a pano of the skyline.

This was the shot after the original and has the same exposure levels. You can see that I already took the exposure up a pretty good amount... not sure how to bring it up any more w/o causing problems.

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The horizons are your fault They can easily be fixed in edit.simple slider.

For the first( and last one here) if you add a GND to the lower portion, you will have more even light bringing out the details on the foreground.

another of downtown... tripod still MIA

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Well I think the lighthouse is a gem ... didn't want to get too carried away but there is nothing like a little local adjustment to take a nice image and really make it pop. This is from an 6 layer stack.

I put this on my web hosting server because I didn't want to compromise IQ. I will remove it shortly or on demand. Hope you like the print rendition. Some cyan in the sand is unfinished masking and I didn't feel like fixing it. Basically the light levels between the sky and land are 2 - 3 stops different and that was corrected. The lighthouse was given contrast adjustment. The sand looks best when blue and cyan are desaturated. It returns to a more monotonic tone.The sky and sea were left alone. This took over an hour and I had a blast working with it. The sand mask was a bit tricky. Thanks for sharing.

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Absolutely incredible transformation! thanks for the work on this and for providing the details for the changes. What did you do to bring out the color and detail in the foliage?

jetcode wrote in post #10841472
Well I think the lighthouse is a gem ... didn't want to get too carried away but there is nothing like a little local adjustment to take a nice image and really make it pop. This is from an 8 layer stack.

I put this on my web hosting server because I didn't want to compromise IQ. I will remove it shortly or on demand. Hope you like the print rendition. Some cyan in the sand is unfinished masking and I didn't feel like fixing it. Basically the light levels between the sky and land are 2 - 3 stops different and that was corrected. The lighthouse was given contrast adjustment. The sand looks best when blue and cyan is desaturated. It returns to a more monotonic tone.The sky and sea were left alone. This took over an hour and I had a blast working with it. The sand mask was a bit tricky. Thanks for sharing.

contrast adjustment using curves