Take 2 - Street or Silhouette?

sapphire73

Have a couple of new shots and revisited the processing of another. Curious whether I'm on the right track or not. It was nice to get the silhouette of the cathedral before heading down the street for light streaks at twilight - and its another "S" shot - but I'm thinking that one of the street shots is a better option. Any thoughts on these? I like the reflections on the wet pavement from the first shoot and the sky in the later ones....

Gretchen

3b - [new edit] Second Street Pike


1b - [new edit] Street in the Rain


5a. Second Street Pike Looking South to Philly [saw spots on lens after posting, leaving up for now]


6. Street Scene (another image from first shoot)


7. Silhouetted Against the Sky (or Silhouette at Sunset)

cbbr

I like 5 best now - I love the sky. 7 is beautiful too.

GretaPics

I'm liking the color and details in #5 now. It caught my eye a little more than the darker ones and I feel like it has the right balance of vehicle streaks adding to the photo rather than overpowering it. The star lighting creates a holiday interpretation too. GP

sapphire73

Two more street shots from last night:

8.


9.

cbbr

I still like #5 the best.

DsrtVW

Of the Street shots 5 is the best but I am a sunset junkie so I am really drawn to 7 only thing I would like to see more on that would be some detail on the church. Would make a great HDR shot

sapphire73

Thanks for the input! Cleaning up #5 for my entry. (Noticed some spots from the lens....)

DsrtVW wrote: »

Of the Street shots 5 is the best but I am a sunset junkie so I am really drawn to 7 only thing I would like to see more on that would be some detail on the church. Would make a great HDR shot

Chris, at some point I'll do some tone-mapping with the bracketed exposures I took for #7. Good suggestion to bring out some of the detail on the church. Thanks!

Gretchen

sapphire73

DsrtVW wrote: »

Of the Street shots 5 is the best but I am a sunset junkie so I am really drawn to 7 only thing I would like to see more on that would be some detail on the church. Would make a great HDR shot

Here is another edit (with help from Photomatix and Photoshop) of the cathedral silhouetted against the sunset sky but showing more detail.

7b.

richtersl

7(a) stands out for me. I don't think you need the detail in the foreground to the photo effective. You've got an eye-catching silhouette plus a gorgeous sky. In 7b the foreground interferes with those elements.

Your photo makes me wish I still lived in Bucks County!

sapphire73

richtersl wrote: »

7(a) stands out for me. I don't think you need the detail in the foreground to the photo effective. You've got an eye-catching silhouette plus a gorgeous sky. In 7b the foreground interferes with those elements.

Your photo makes me wish I still lived in Bucks County!

Thanks for giving me your input on these! I do like the dark silhouette (7a) which sort of reminds me of the paper cutting of "scherenschnitte." I agree that 7b brings out the foreground too much. 7c is a compromise, just hinting at that third dimension - depth.

7c.


I've been thinking I'll enter a street scene and may still get to it, but got sick over the long weekend and am having "technical difficulties" getting the street scene to my liking.

Gretchen

Latinooo

I like 5 the sky and the timing was good..

also 7c is really better than before .

sapphire73

Latinooo, thanks for your input on 5 and 7. It's nice to feel like I have two good options. Now to figure out which one to enter!

PedalGirl

I like #5 best out of all of them... the sky is beautiful, really caught my eye.

sapphire73

Finally switched out my entry to a version of 5a after cleaning up the spots from the lens and trying to bring out the colors in the sky a bit more. My best options seemed to be these two.

5b.


5c. Street Scene on the Way to Philly (current entry)


I went with 5c, thinking it put a little more emphasis on the Street but welcome your input on this. It was really a toss up for me. Thank you all for the helpful input you've given already!

Gretchen