Hong Kong Construction. Room for improvement?

[jasony8]

Here is a photo which I took for this newbie photo competition, with the topic aimed to show "the human impacts on the environment in HK."

I feel that the photo looks little washed out, what can I do to make this photo 'pop' abit more?
I want to keep the construction site as the may subject, at the same time . .show the HK skyline.
Any suggested crops I can do to highlight the key message in the photo?



Exif Data:
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/10.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Bias: +2/3 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire

Thanks for your feedback!

[jasony8]

Any suggestions guys?

Thank you for looking!

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by jasony8

Here is a photo which I took for this newbie photo competition, with the topic aimed to show "the human impacts on the environment in HK."

I feel that the photo looks little washed out, what can I do to make this photo 'pop' abit more?
I want to keep the construction site as the may subject, at the same time . .show the HK skyline.
Any suggested crops I can do to highlight the key message in the photo?

Being a non HK resident, I have a different idea of what's included in the skyline. Here's one of my crops. Just my two cents.

[jasony8]

Originally Posted by LoveDSLR

Being a non HK resident, I have a different idea of what's included in the skyline. Here's one of my crops. Just my two cents.

Thanks for the great idea and having a go yourself

[cansan]

The big blue building in the construction site kind of takes away from the composition. Attached are 2 possible crops without it:

[jasony8]

Originally Posted by cansan

The big blue building in the construction site kind of takes away from the composition. Attached are 2 possible crops without it:

Thanks for the feedback Great suggestions on how to crop

[AshNZ]

Try increasing the contrast - that should fix the "washed out" area a little bit.

[notsotechie]

You can use a eye dropper on the small building the black one the right hand hand side to help correct the Whitbalnce mind you I'm using just DPP also work on all colour channel it will bring out the truer colour of the sky also the building too

Cheer