Chicago Landscape at Sunset

[augiecrazy8]

Shot was taken with a Canon T2i, Canon 16-35mm f2.8 lens, ISO 100, f2.8, 1/8 shutter speed. I rented this lens for the week and ran up to one of my favorite places north of the city. A storm was rolling in as the sun was setting, so the colors of the sky were incredible. Wish I could post a few more of this series. The rest of the stream can be found on my Flickr page: Chicago Skyline

Would love to get comments on composition & color. I will likely crop out the grass in the bottom right, but I like the way the stairs on the right sort of wind their way into the city.

Update: So I did some cropping and touching up. I actually can't find a lens profile that I actually like and for some reason the popular lens I used isn't a default in Lightroom. Would appreciate a few new critiques (thanks for the prior).

[dlambert]

I like the stairs, too, but I could do without the line (seam?) running diagonally to the lower right. The colors are nice. I think I'm seeing some lens distortion - some of the buildings seem to be leaning a bit.

[augiecrazy8]

I'll see what I can do, hoping the lens profile in Lightroom will help with the distortion as I saw some of that in the sky too. I'll see if I can repost the updated. Thanks for the feedback

[Michael_2010]

Beautiful! The expansion joint and the lump of grass could go. The perspective tool will take care of the converging verticals in about two seconds.