What can I say? I like big, broad, sweeping cityscapes. Especially the city I live in, the city I fell in love with. This shot was a bit of a challenge cause I wanted a thirty second take, to get that impossibly smooth river water. Back when I had actually shot it in May, I had a variety of takes that I was looking at for a while, endlessly dissatisfied with them, slammed my laptop shut a few times cause I couldn’t just bring forth anything resembling art. It’s good I sat on it for a bit, cause I like this result.
Also, if you’ve seen a recently-deleted post of mine, that was cause I was posting something from five months ago that I forgot that I already posted. My body of work is getting too much to be contained in my head.
Thanks for seeing my work!
The original that I had captured back in October. I wanted to structure the rear skyline differently, and I had waited until some lights had faded, and the bridge changed lighting profile.
The first take was six seconds, the one in the body of the original post went for thirty which made the water much smoother.
I think this one here, the original, is better.
I like this one more because the lighting from the city adds so much more color.
It is very pretty.
I agree. The framing in this is basically perfect I also really like the clearer reflections off the water.
Was it this photo that had the 6 second exposure, or was the river just a lot calmer?