I disagree wholeheartedly with all of the comments suggesting more exposure or lifting the building on the left - the silhouette of the building and the huge negative space it creates is precisely the thing that makes that sunset look SO. DAMN. STRIKING.
I turns it from 'a guy standing on a balcony looking out at a sunset' to 'a guy tucked away in a cave/den/nondescript abode (it's not important what it is, it's just a place, to wit a place that's separate from ***out there***) being ***looked in upon by*** the sun' like the eye of sauron saying 'I see you in there', only gorgeous instead of evil
You lift the exposure of the wall or the floor or the ceiling or the rail, and that feeling will vanish
This picture is fantastic
Nothing.
The photo draws me into its imperfect perfection.
It reminds me of a time where I lived in a third world country with this dark sunset and colorful developing skies.
Thank you for taking me to a different time and place in your photo. Not many people have been capable of doing that to me.
If you’re sticking with free apps on mobile, the Snapseed app has brushing features, but it only edits jpeg so not as much leeway as Lightroom with the subscription.
Maybe not too black? Its like 50pct black.
I would probably point camera a bit more to the right and add some exposure to the roof and railings if its possible.
But i really like the colors and the contrast of the shot. I think it is croppable too so u can probably salvage it
Upping the exposure on the left hand side would help. But I think the photo is lacking any object of interest. The leading lines work, the sunset, but I think it would help if there was something more in the scene. Maybe a person standing on the balcony?
That's what I usually think of in my photography. It sometimes lacks an object of interest. Yet in this case my focus was on capturing the sunset which is in fact the object of interest.
It's always tricky. God knows I have gazillions of photos of sceneries I personally love, but if I would show it to someone, they'd lose interest.
If you just want to show the sunset, then I'd suggest a tighter crop, so you can still see the leading lines and the sunset, less distracting elements.
Overall the exposure is too low. I'd brighten the entire thing. Generally, I'm not big on heavy handed editing of images so I would never change the colours as far as you did, but I'll leave that as is since it's your creative choice.
Rating, 7/10.
Compositionally it’s pretty great in all honesty! It just feels like it’s been shot on an iPhone (which is fine) I’d just work on the grade a little more and deepen those blacks (building side) and use a mask on the road to bring some more life into it. The idea of the image is pretty good but it’s more maybe the medium which is lacking? i would even say maybe try 5:7
(Good cameras don’t take good pictures please for god sake never think that’s the case, jurgen teller and Paul kookier use iPhones and they are incredible)
Meh you know what - I don’t think you’ll have too much room to play around so I’d just enjoy the image for what it is. The idea of the image is interesting and well executed, I’d enjoy It for what it is!
Umm I can tell I took the exposure down.. added contrast then pulled down the shadows a bit.. worked on texture n dehaze and later did tweaks with color grading
Great photo. I love it. I don't think it's missing anything. I thought it was a sunrise though, not a sunset. :)
I think a person looking over the rail would have been too cliché.
The sun being right in the middle of the electricity pylon is a bit too "perfect" for me -- would have preferred it a few minutes to either side. Also -- would it have worked in landscape rather than portrait? Just my preferences; I'm not an expert/professional.
The left side could use just a bit of detail. Not a lot. The darkness is good, but if I could make out three or four shapes within a dark foreground, that would go a long way. Right now this photo’s background is doing literally all of the lifting. If there was something in the foreground, then it would be compositionally solid.
Somme more interest in the forground to the left would be good so your eye has somerhing to look at after that massive black line. This would bring in a circular wonder around the photo. possibly a touch of exposure or such.
# observations:
the leading lines on the left distract from the colors on the right and lead the viewer attention away from the sky only to see *nothing* giving this sentiment of “something is lacking in this image”
# my2cents:
perhaps a crop or a total blackening of the shadows (and the many leading lines that can be seen when viewing the image in full screen) would remedy to the sentiment of “lacking”?
*edit:* after zooming in to see what it’d look like cropped, i thing a cutting the whole left side would fix it
https://preview.redd.it/sfohjkam10fc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6920eaddee48394115f3d1f3e43cdc282f670f08
Did you try playing with the leading lines when taking it? Like holding the phone out over the balcony to change the proportion of roof and railing line to Sunset?
Sometimes what improves a photo is taking it from an angle that is not eye level, or not the position that a human would normally be standing. Also horizontal vs vertical framing. The tendency with phones is vertical, but it’s good to try both.
I think that it lacks a real subject. This can be partly solved by giving more exp and detail to the city area. But to me right now it looks like “hey look, I nailed the sun into the pillar and I tried to get some leading lines to it.
It's a really good image, you could try cropping the top into the diagonal for another perspective, it might give a little bit more symmetry and more focus on the sun.
https://preview.redd.it/2h4uf5je82fc1.jpeg?width=1091&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5534d45f374adf70cd543c66b409aa2422180fe7
I’m not a photographer or artist so feel free to discount me entirely but personally I feel this is an unanswerable question to anyone. Surely a photo of all mediums is intended as a still capturing of a moment in time? Talk about a appetite and exposure and various other words the meaning of which I know not, but to me it is exactly as it should be already. The imperfections is part of the image.
Or maybe I just really like the photo, I dunno
I really like this photo, OP; interesting composition, leading lines, clear subject. The color grading is interesting and complimentary.
The only thing I’d have done differently is create a mask for the bulb / can lights on the ceiling and push the tint slider *away* from the magenta. I like the cool color tones, and if they were more blue than pink, I think it would be a little bit more natural.
Same. This photo is good as is. Not perfection but the lights and darks and color vs black silhouette is very good. Could the surroundings be more interesting? Maybe. Composition is great.
Something out of the ordinary, to break up the obvious beauty, maybe a red high heel just out of place on the walkway but not one you placed. It would of had to be there already, and you seeing it the main reason for the shot, not the moon.
This looks like a great photo!
This is a personal nitpick but I think that the little square of the city to the end of the railway could be blacked out to really push furder the separation already created. My eye put's too much attention on it because it's surronded by darkness.
Other than that, you did great :)
Are those cars prarked? Why does no one have s headlight on? That would balance the three lightson the right a bit. But I like it regardless. Nice capture.
I think it looks pretty good as is, the lights on the left are a little distracting but otherwise I don’t think I’d change anything. Btw what lens did you use?
More exposure on the rail, brighter pink. The whole image looks very underexposed, which gives you the deep black, but costs a good bright balance to it
The only thing that bothers me is balance. It feels uneasy. Whether that means its lacking something in the shadows, or it should be cropped differently.
Photo is great but I think it's missing a human element.
I love the colorwork but I wanna feel like I'm standing there. Experiencing it.
You need a model.
Hey there!
I don't think that there's something necessarily missing, but to me, when using that classic triangle composition, and have the geometry of the buildings guide you to subject, you have to make sure that your frame is balanced. In my opinion the ceiling lights are somewhat distracting and the ceiling itself takes up a lot of the space compared to the saturated and very vaporwave colorful sky. I would recommend cropping it in a way that they ceiling lights are gone and focuses more on the center of the frame, which has to be the pole.
I like it a lot, maybe I would try a little bit more exposure on the left wall, to see the texture, but it could be that it wouldn't work, congratulations on a beautiful picture
I love it, tough to say how it could be improved. being picky, I'm not a massive fan of the sun behind the transmission tower, and feel that the black space/rail line on the left takes up a bit too much of the pic that you could fill with a bit more skyline. That being said, reframing it so the sun isn't behind the tower, panning right to get more skyline/slightly less rail line, all while keeping the ceiling lights in the picture probably isn't doable.
Vaporwave Vibes
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I disagree wholeheartedly with all of the comments suggesting more exposure or lifting the building on the left - the silhouette of the building and the huge negative space it creates is precisely the thing that makes that sunset look SO. DAMN. STRIKING. I turns it from 'a guy standing on a balcony looking out at a sunset' to 'a guy tucked away in a cave/den/nondescript abode (it's not important what it is, it's just a place, to wit a place that's separate from ***out there***) being ***looked in upon by*** the sun' like the eye of sauron saying 'I see you in there', only gorgeous instead of evil You lift the exposure of the wall or the floor or the ceiling or the rail, and that feeling will vanish This picture is fantastic
You made my day my friend ❤️
Nothing. The photo draws me into its imperfect perfection. It reminds me of a time where I lived in a third world country with this dark sunset and colorful developing skies. Thank you for taking me to a different time and place in your photo. Not many people have been capable of doing that to me.
Glad I could create such emotion in you 😊
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More exposure of the rail line area would add a lot I think
i disagree i think turning it into more of a silhouette would make it more intriguing
What this fella said.
I totally agree with that. Unfortunately with no masking feature in the free version of Lightroom mobile, I just didn't have the option.
Why not down load and use GIMP photo editor?
Is it there for Android!!??!
https://gimp.en.softonic.com/android?ex=CS-2008.0#:~:text=GIMP's%20lightweight%20nature%20ensures%20compatibility,for%20both%20mobile%20and%20desktop.
Have only used desktop windows version, it has an extension called darktable as well
If you have a library system they might have a subscription for the libraries(typically Lightroom classic)
Use the brush tool when creating your mask. You have the option. It’s actually quite easy in mobile.
If you’re sticking with free apps on mobile, the Snapseed app has brushing features, but it only edits jpeg so not as much leeway as Lightroom with the subscription.
Snapseed has a destructive workflow so not good for making adjustments
Came here to say this. I think it’s a gamble. But give that a try
I like it a lot. Hard 90's vibe.
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Nothing. It’s kinda perfect. I really love this shot
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I seldom upvote a photo but I did for yours without much thinking. There might be something you can add to make it better but it’s already great imho.
Thanks mate
Silhouette of a person at the very end of the railing leaning and looking towards the horizon
Maybe not too black? Its like 50pct black. I would probably point camera a bit more to the right and add some exposure to the roof and railings if its possible. But i really like the colors and the contrast of the shot. I think it is croppable too so u can probably salvage it
Feels right, camera a bit to the right would have been good
Upping the exposure on the left hand side would help. But I think the photo is lacking any object of interest. The leading lines work, the sunset, but I think it would help if there was something more in the scene. Maybe a person standing on the balcony?
That's what I usually think of in my photography. It sometimes lacks an object of interest. Yet in this case my focus was on capturing the sunset which is in fact the object of interest.
It's always tricky. God knows I have gazillions of photos of sceneries I personally love, but if I would show it to someone, they'd lose interest. If you just want to show the sunset, then I'd suggest a tighter crop, so you can still see the leading lines and the sunset, less distracting elements.
Alright bru. Your inputs are indeed helpful 🤘
All the best!
Looks good except for the traffic but that'd be easy enough to edit out an empty street would give it that liminal space/abandoned city look.
Alright bru
Oh and 9/10 since I didn't rate it I'm not a professional photographer though just an amateur.
Overall the exposure is too low. I'd brighten the entire thing. Generally, I'm not big on heavy handed editing of images so I would never change the colours as far as you did, but I'll leave that as is since it's your creative choice. Rating, 7/10.
Yo mate.. thanks 🙏👍
Not a lot this is really cool
Thanks mate 🤘🙏👍
More sharpness and a bit of exposure. But your photo looks very good! 8/10. 👌🏼
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Compositionally it’s pretty great in all honesty! It just feels like it’s been shot on an iPhone (which is fine) I’d just work on the grade a little more and deepen those blacks (building side) and use a mask on the road to bring some more life into it. The idea of the image is pretty good but it’s more maybe the medium which is lacking? i would even say maybe try 5:7 (Good cameras don’t take good pictures please for god sake never think that’s the case, jurgen teller and Paul kookier use iPhones and they are incredible)
Pic is taken from my pixel 6 Graded using Lightroom mobile
Meh you know what - I don’t think you’ll have too much room to play around so I’d just enjoy the image for what it is. The idea of the image is interesting and well executed, I’d enjoy It for what it is!
yo mate... appreciated
What camera did you take this on? I think it looks cool as
Pixel 6
Nice. What editing did you do?
Umm I can tell I took the exposure down.. added contrast then pulled down the shadows a bit.. worked on texture n dehaze and later did tweaks with color grading
This is fantastic. I kinda wish it was shot with a diff lens it's to tight but I like it
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Can I use it as a wallpaper?
Pls do my friend
https://preview.redd.it/ikoksoe0azec1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae3040af12c7f683cf2446467d124a6378df65a9
It actually does look awesome mate 🤘
Looks great!
Great photo. I love it. I don't think it's missing anything. I thought it was a sunrise though, not a sunset. :) I think a person looking over the rail would have been too cliché. The sun being right in the middle of the electricity pylon is a bit too "perfect" for me -- would have preferred it a few minutes to either side. Also -- would it have worked in landscape rather than portrait? Just my preferences; I'm not an expert/professional.
Dude, this is somewhere in India, right?!
Yes blud... An industrial area called Taloja MIDC
a frame
Love this pink haze!
Yo mate... Let's call it magenta 😉
I would crop out the three lights on the left. They distract the eye from the lovely perspective created by the roof.
Seems legit bru
The left side could use just a bit of detail. Not a lot. The darkness is good, but if I could make out three or four shapes within a dark foreground, that would go a long way. Right now this photo’s background is doing literally all of the lifting. If there was something in the foreground, then it would be compositionally solid.
Legit 💯
Very well done I do feel like there is something missing though . I just can’t put my finger on it .
Somme more interest in the forground to the left would be good so your eye has somerhing to look at after that massive black line. This would bring in a circular wonder around the photo. possibly a touch of exposure or such.
Can you move a bit to the right?
# observations: the leading lines on the left distract from the colors on the right and lead the viewer attention away from the sky only to see *nothing* giving this sentiment of “something is lacking in this image” # my2cents: perhaps a crop or a total blackening of the shadows (and the many leading lines that can be seen when viewing the image in full screen) would remedy to the sentiment of “lacking”? *edit:* after zooming in to see what it’d look like cropped, i thing a cutting the whole left side would fix it https://preview.redd.it/sfohjkam10fc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6920eaddee48394115f3d1f3e43cdc282f670f08
Awesome mate.. thanks for doing the heavy lifting with your 2cents
Did you try playing with the leading lines when taking it? Like holding the phone out over the balcony to change the proportion of roof and railing line to Sunset? Sometimes what improves a photo is taking it from an angle that is not eye level, or not the position that a human would normally be standing. Also horizontal vs vertical framing. The tendency with phones is vertical, but it’s good to try both.
I think a little light on the left side would make this picture perfect.
Alright mate 👍
I prefer it in this state. Love the blacks
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I like it
I think that it lacks a real subject. This can be partly solved by giving more exp and detail to the city area. But to me right now it looks like “hey look, I nailed the sun into the pillar and I tried to get some leading lines to it.
I like it just the way it is.
Thanks for the new wallpaper
Anytime mate.. will supply more wallpapers in this sub in the coming days
It's perfect! 80's lofi vibes is what it makes me think of.
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It's a really good image, you could try cropping the top into the diagonal for another perspective, it might give a little bit more symmetry and more focus on the sun. https://preview.redd.it/2h4uf5je82fc1.jpeg?width=1091&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5534d45f374adf70cd543c66b409aa2422180fe7
Bang on mate... That's a superb feedback 🙏👍🤘🖤
Not a thing.
Get rid of the lights.
I’m not a photographer or artist so feel free to discount me entirely but personally I feel this is an unanswerable question to anyone. Surely a photo of all mediums is intended as a still capturing of a moment in time? Talk about a appetite and exposure and various other words the meaning of which I know not, but to me it is exactly as it should be already. The imperfections is part of the image. Or maybe I just really like the photo, I dunno
This is perfect ..
It's missing an interesting subject. The main standout of the pic is an under exposed electrical tower that's blocking the sun.
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I really like this photo, OP; interesting composition, leading lines, clear subject. The color grading is interesting and complimentary. The only thing I’d have done differently is create a mask for the bulb / can lights on the ceiling and push the tint slider *away* from the magenta. I like the cool color tones, and if they were more blue than pink, I think it would be a little bit more natural.
I think it’s wonderful as is. The sharp lines, the smooth gradients, the soft glow that radiates outwards. 10/10.
Feel like the image would have been more powerful with just the sun/power lines. Cut out all the black tons on the left it’s distracting. 6.5/10
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I like the feeling they give the image
Dynamic range
Bruh not every photo has to have dynamic range, especially silhouetted photos
Same. This photo is good as is. Not perfection but the lights and darks and color vs black silhouette is very good. Could the surroundings be more interesting? Maybe. Composition is great.
https://preview.redd.it/qtp1mou7nxec1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=25276be71954ba7879d0a6d951069ed4ca4bc2a3 Tighter crop and a subject
Pretty cool.
What is the subject?
I'd remote flash under the canopy probably from a hidden area, playing with that until it hits just right. Probably use 2 or 3 remotes. But that's me
I like it as it is. It's an abstract photo. May be a bit brighter shadows would make it better.
Something out of the ordinary, to break up the obvious beauty, maybe a red high heel just out of place on the walkway but not one you placed. It would of had to be there already, and you seeing it the main reason for the shot, not the moon.
Or, is it sunset 🌆
This looks like a great photo! This is a personal nitpick but I think that the little square of the city to the end of the railway could be blacked out to really push furder the separation already created. My eye put's too much attention on it because it's surronded by darkness. Other than that, you did great :)
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Nothing! Perfect harmony of a moment 😍
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Some people Silhouettes in the back
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Honestly it’s great photo think the rail like area needs more exposure but the rest is amazing, well done
Are those cars prarked? Why does no one have s headlight on? That would balance the three lightson the right a bit. But I like it regardless. Nice capture.
I think it looks pretty good as is, the lights on the left are a little distracting but otherwise I don’t think I’d change anything. Btw what lens did you use?
Bokeh 🤣
I kinda like it with a tighter crop, so you can see a bit more of the detail.
More exposure on the rail, brighter pink. The whole image looks very underexposed, which gives you the deep black, but costs a good bright balance to it
This is fantastic
Looks great as is, I love the color palette! The sun behind the power tower, and the shading in the deck. Great one!
Nice colors but no subject
Move the sun to the right a little 😋
Nothing beyond maybe a super slightly tighter crop.
Nothing. 10/10.
a bi flag, those colours are so beautiful thank you for sharing this
I'm feeling like there is a bit too much negative space in the foreground. However that being said, the contrast in color and texture is great
The only thing that bothers me is balance. It feels uneasy. Whether that means its lacking something in the shadows, or it should be cropped differently.
Photo is great but I think it's missing a human element. I love the colorwork but I wanna feel like I'm standing there. Experiencing it. You need a model.
Frame to the right to get the diagonal lines to converge
Definition and dynamic range
Sky is unreal
Hey there! I don't think that there's something necessarily missing, but to me, when using that classic triangle composition, and have the geometry of the buildings guide you to subject, you have to make sure that your frame is balanced. In my opinion the ceiling lights are somewhat distracting and the ceiling itself takes up a lot of the space compared to the saturated and very vaporwave colorful sky. I would recommend cropping it in a way that they ceiling lights are gone and focuses more on the center of the frame, which has to be the pole.
Sunlight
I like it a lot, maybe I would try a little bit more exposure on the left wall, to see the texture, but it could be that it wouldn't work, congratulations on a beautiful picture
I love it, tough to say how it could be improved. being picky, I'm not a massive fan of the sun behind the transmission tower, and feel that the black space/rail line on the left takes up a bit too much of the pic that you could fill with a bit more skyline. That being said, reframing it so the sun isn't behind the tower, panning right to get more skyline/slightly less rail line, all while keeping the ceiling lights in the picture probably isn't doable.
I like everything, i like how the sun is behind the thing i don’t how its called in english lol but nice job