Long Exposure of Jax Skyline

chrismoore

Went out to downtown Jacksonville for the first time in over a year yesterday evening and decided to try a long exposure of the skyline reflecting on the river. This was taken right at sunset as the sun setting to the west cast a nice red and magenta hue on the city. I stacked a 6 stop ND and 3 stop soft ND grad, ISO 50, f/20 to create a 5 minute exposure. Thanks for looking.

eoren1

Great job with this one. The light and cloud movement is fantastic.
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hawkeye978

Saw this on Facebook, Chris. Fantastic color and lighting!

jackiejay

you captured that wonderfully what a beautiful pic:)

awoo

Lovely!!

rookieshooter

Very nice, wow.

Toonartist

Absolutely stunning shot, really beautiful!

Duncan

ows4428

This looks fake, and that's a compliment. Great job with the clouds.

TUeltzen

Awesome! I really like the reflections and the clouds, great job.

bike21

I dig it, well done!

chrismoore

thank you all very much for the kind remarks. I'm surprised at how well this image was received because I really wasn't crazy about it at first, but the more I look at it the more it grows on me. I like the cloud streaks with the magenta hues from the settings sun, but most of all how the 5 minute exposure turns the water (which was a little choppy from the wind) into a glass-like appearance, probably which is what makes the photo look fake as one reviewer suggested it certainly does create a more powerful composition than the usual one or two second exposures I made that don't create that effect. I resisted the temptation to boost the saturation and contrast any further, to keep it as realistic as possible. thanks again for taking the time to comment.

dlplumer

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kdog

Extremely cool and creative, and very pleasing to look at. It was nice that there were no boats to mess up your shot. You do have a bit of horizontal perspective distortion that knocks your horizon out of level. Easily fixed with the perspective tool (I tried it ).

wolf911

really love the colors and processing

Bryans12v

Great shot!!

chrismoore

kdog wrote: »

Extremely cool and creative, and very pleasing to look at. It was nice that there were no boats to mess up your shot. You do have a bit of horizontal perspective distortion that knocks your horizon out of level. Easily fixed with the perspective tool (I tried it ).

Thanks kdog. I did play with the tilt a bit, but found that when correcting the horizon 100% the top line of the Modis building was significantly slanted which IMO looked worse. I'll try it again. I think it is the distortion of the WA lens causing the problem.

dseidman

Really nice and smooth image with crisp detail. The only thing that's bothering me is the inward-tilted buildings.

chrismoore

dseidman wrote: »

Really nice and smooth image with crisp detail. The only thing that's bothering me is the inward-tilted buildings.

you're right, I think its again the lens distortion. I used the lens correction tool in lightroom and made it better, I think. and also straightened out the horizon a tad. pardon the jpeg compression with this low res upload.

steelephotography.com

The way HDR "used" to be done...

chrismoore wrote: »

Went out to downtown Jacksonville for the first time in over a year yesterday evening and decided to try a long exposure of the skyline reflecting on the river. This was taken right at sunset as the sun setting to the west cast a nice red and magenta hue on the city. I stacked a 6 stop ND and 3 stop soft ND grad, ISO 50, f/20 to create a 5 minute exposure. Thanks for looking.

Nice image -- thanks for sharing...

bryanj87

Nicely done, great colors and movement in the sky.

grimace

Great shot!! A wallhanger for sure!!