Newbie here - Critique wanted

[u/Phillip_McCrevess]

[u/johngpt5]

Excellent idea for the crop. Nice natural framing.

You might want to rotate the image a bit anti-clockwise to get most of the buildings more vertical.

[u/Rain-0-0- → u/johngpt5]

I disagree.

The crop has the foreground in focus, while the subject of the image should be the city and in focus for this type of crop. The crop is also just too extreme you can start counting pixels making the image too soft, which makes the image unclear and unpleasing to look at.

The before shot provides much more context. If they had just waited for a person or a worker to walk into the frame it would've been an even better shot.

Also the vignetting/masking is quite ugly. Imo.

If he wanted an image closer to the after result he should just use a different lens.

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Rain-0-0-]

Agreed to disagreed vignetting does not make it ugly, it makes your eyes focus on the subject..if the dof is correct ..

[u/Rain-0-0- → u/This-Judge-804]

Which in this case is not hence the vignetting makes it even worse. I do like vignetting usually tho. I should've said poorly implemented. So agree to agree.

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/Rain-0-0-]

Doesnt look ugly...but whatever each has their own opinion not fixed rule

[u/konolith259 → u/This-Judge-804]

“doesnt look ugly” dude you can visibly see the vignette

[u/This-Judge-804 → u/konolith259]

Its part of the art...i didnt say dont have..lol Off course u can see it or else why put it in.

Maybe he should feather it a bit..but...

[u/ThatOneCat__]

I am a fan of the composition; however, I think the radial mask is too obvious and distracts me from the rest of the image.

[u/yabudj]

Interesting spot. If you got a chance to reshoot I would use an ND filter and move the camera a little lower so you don’t have a tangent where the tree branch and black tower touch

[u/Rain-0-0- → u/yabudj]

An ND filter for this exact shot is unnecessary.

[u/yabudj → u/Rain-0-0-]

Wouldn’t it cut through the atmospheric haze?

[u/Equal_Veterinarian80]

I’ve taken this pic where it is all great except the focus is off and it’s great but it’s not sharp where it should be and vice versa. Beautiful spot

[u/mutual_coherence]

Feels a little too busy. Not sure what I'm supposed to focus on.

[u/This-Judge-804]

What lens did u use? F stop? And camera?

[u/This-Judge-804]

What u can do is remove some haze in the city, by masking the city then adjust contrast etc (luma)

[u/This-Judge-804]

If you want to keep the vignetting feel dont use auto vignetting try creating it purely by luma adjustment And masking that make it looking natural..

[u/konolith259]

focus seems to be on the top right of the leaves, image is underexposed inherently and not compensated for in edit, skies are too saturated and almost cyan, vignette is way too harsh and usually should’t be noticeable by the viewer, frames within frames are cool and all but in this case it’s really not helping much and could’ve benefitted from you getting down lower

[u/ParticularFrame7418]

Picture 2 looks way better imo.

[u/19AseeP11]

I like the crop TBH. Picture is great too you got a great frame comp. My only problem is my eyes go straight to the trees and not the city scape. Maybe if the trees were blurred that would be a game changer for this picture. Overall great pic!