Downtown L.A. skyline at sunset

Oso

Caught these on the way home from work. As soon as I got up there the clouds directly over downtown went poof but I stuck around anyway.





C&C always welcome. Thanks for looking.

David_S85

Color version all the way. Great shot and nice that the clouds were posing for you in the background.

Stumblebum

Great shot Steve! Color for me too! Great composition and capture! Being greedy as always.....I do wish that the right side of the buildings was lit a bit more too as the left side high rises....maybe there are some cloning tricks available.....Cheers!

Oso

Good eye Stumblebum! Those two buildings are oriented a little different than the ones at right, thus the lack of lights. Good idea about the cloning. I'm a drunken surgeon when it comes to processing, but I may very well have a few beers and give that a try. tx dude!

JeffC230

Great shot! I thought at first that it was too much sky.....but I dont think it would work any other way.

WillCAD

I'm a color-lover all the way. I see in color, so I tend to love color images far more than b/w. So naturally, I like the color version of this image better.

However, I really love the detail in the foreground that you have brought out in the b/w version. It's solid black in the color version. Maybe you could overlay some of that detail from the b/w version on top of the black areas in the color version.

I also think this image is perfect for a panorama, if you crop out most of the blue sky and bring the top down to about the level of the cloud tops on the left side. But if you wanted to use it for something like a business card or advertizing materials, the empty blue sky is perfect for text or other images as is.

boco

mooie eerste.
grt,boco.

Oso

Thanks! I had a hard time recovering any kind of good detail on the color exposure without it looking heavily manipulated; I underexposed foreground is the issue. I need to take another whack at some of the different exposures. As for the issue with sky, I thought about cropping but I tend to like putting manmade things or people against big backdrops, whether it be landscapes or (in this case) sky. Makes it a little different!