Kansas City skyline

[Tarl]

I'm new here and while I've been playing around with photography, I've decided to get a little more serious. Any advice would be appreciated. Composure? Is there too much going on here?






Canon ATI with 75-300 ef lens
Sorry have lost other data

[windrider86]

I'm pretty sure you answered your own question. Yes, there is too much going on. So much so that the main subject is lost.
Most importantly, the selective coloring doesn't work. Sorry

[bikingbadger]

I am no expert but I think that the colours don't work esppecially the green on the left. I think you need to decide what you want this photo to say and then focus your attention on that subject.

[Tarl]

Thanks for the critiques. I went back and found the original shot. Here it is. All I've done is lighten it a little bit and bumped up the definition in Iphoto. So what would you do with this photo. Is there a good photo somewhere in this shot. I would be very interested to see what some of you would do with this. Even if that means throwing it on the scrape heap. Thanks for your time.
Here's the camera data.
Shutter speed 1/1600
Aperture f/10.0
Focal length 75mm
ISO 400

[Krusty79]

Going by your original, it looks like your subject was the jet. I do find my eye going to it, even though it is very small in your image. It's so small though, that it gets kind of lost in the overall picture. Even though you cropped your shot to feature the jet more in the first post, there were the issues raised by windrider and bikingbadger. So, I don't know if you have a telephoto lens, but the fact that your subject is so small limits what you can do with this shot. If it was larger, I'd say you could even crop out the buildings in the bottom half of the image (and clone out the distracting birds(?) on the right).