Bund of Shanghai

[AznFX]

The Bund, one of the most popular tourist destinations in China. It was so crowded. This was one of the first times that I applied long exposure photography using a tripod.

Question ; do you think I captured the cityscape of Shanghai nicely?

Do the colours feel natural or not?

Composition wise, how can it be improved?


Non-HDR
Contrast, saturation and exposure changed in Lightroom 2.5.
Shadows/Highlights and sharpened in Photoshop CS3.

Nikon D3000
20 Seconds
f/18.0
18mm (Using 18-55 VR 3.5-5.6/f, VR off)
100 ISO
No filters

[oldwolf]

I think it's a nice picture. My only concern is for the blown out building in the lower right. I might have tried to capture another picture exposed for just that building then combining the two pictures afterwards so you can see what it is that's being displayed on the side of the building.

Otherwise the colors are nice and the composition is spot on.

[AznFX]

Yeah, I was concerned about that as well. Unfortunately I didn't do what you said at the time.

Thank you for your comments.

[AznFX]

More comments please. :3

[windrider86]

you might also try and straighten out the one building thats leaning inward

[rohan_iiitc]

Hey AznFX

Great Pics. You can do few things like
1. straighten your image
2. crop the image from both the side abit to make the image look more prominent.
3. those faded clouds is bothering me, try to play with colours and enhancethem a bit.

Overall its an amazing pic, well composed and well shot.

Thanks

[augiecrazy8]

Colors are beautiful, would do some photoshopping to the building in the lower right. Also agree that some of the buildings are leaning. Likely due to the wide angle lens. Lightroom has some preset lens profiles that might help with that. Might pull out the clouds too. So really just echoing some other critiques