Cool shots, especially the second! Colors are amazing. I agree with Marnie - the right building is to be cropped off. I also feel somewhat uncomfortable about the huge black spot on the left. I tried to crop the 1/3 or 1/4 of the height from bottom, keeping only sparse branches. This way is seems more balanced to me, but I am still not sure.
--Sasha On 2/24/09, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Ira Bryant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Last Christmas I traveled with my wife to Hong Kong, mainland China, and > Macau. It was her first time home in three years, and the first time I had > ever been there. I also met my in-laws for the first time. > > > > Most of my photography time since then has been spent working on a Blurb > book of the trip. This has turned out to be a bigger project than I thought. > The pictures are all done, but the text and captions are taking a long time. > I haven't really shared the pictures I took with anyone, yet, except for the > two I submitted for the PDML book. I thought I would stop and share a couple > more. > > > > The first place any tourist goes in Hong Kong is usually to the top of > Victoria Peak. It is situated in the middle of Hong Kong, and has a beautiful > view of the city. I managed to get there right at sunset, and got a decent > spot. I didn't have a tripod, though, and my pictures suffered for it. The > place is elbow-to-elbow photographers. I guess it is the worst kind of > tourism to do, but it was only a few hours of a two week trip. And the view > was very lovely, and nothing I can see back in Oklahoma. > > > > So here are a couple of photos: > > > > With maximum cliche - > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3300800173_10e5149080_o.jpg > > > > Taken with the K100D Super and DA21 > > > > With slightly less cliche - > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3385/3300800617_b1b2758e13_o.jpg > > > > Taken with a Sears 80-200 f/4. I bought a Pentax M150 f/3.5 toward > the end of the trip > > to replace it, but it is what I had at the time. I had the SR set > wrong, that is why the EXIF > > data says I am using a 50mm lens. Photography is hard. > > > > Any comments on the photos, especially post-production tips, would be > appeciated. > > > Both gorgeous, but I prefer the night shot. Being as I've never been > to Hong Kong, and honestly haven't seen many images of its skyline, > these are anything but cliche to me. > > Terrific! > > cheers, > frank > > > > > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
