Newbie.. 2 pics

[nttf2010]

Hi , I'm very much new to photography , after learning from Internet abt photography & playing a while with my camera for about 2 weeks , tried my hand at night photography. Please let me know what is right / wrong with the pics. Two photographs are taken few minutes apart.

#1 F-11 , Exposure - 5 Sec , ISO - 100 , Time : 19.39

deliberately underexposed it to contrast with the blue sky and the reflections.

#2 F-11 , Exposure - 15 sec , ISO - 100 , Time : 20:22

Is horizon bit on the top side ? Wanted to capture more reflection.

 

[JiEeEe]

what camera are u using?

somehow soft to me

 

[akangtooch]

maybe sharpen a bit while PP...

 

[lichtleiter]

shots from a pns?

 

[Numnumball]

Nice efforts, some shrapening will be better

 

[nttf2010]

Hi, First of all thanks everybody for taking time to view and comment on my pics.

JiEeEe ,lichtleiter, I'm using FujiFilm S200EXR.

Took your advice and sharpened using Photoscape.

 

[lichtleiter]

nice work

 

[sabee]

My honest comments:

The scene is too tight is some areas, too open in other areas. More sky in #2 would help. There is a strong sense of imbalance caused by the chunk of buildings on the right and the sparse buildings on the left. It might help to not include the 2 buildings on the left. At the same time, the right side is too tight and ends too abruptly. Finally the buildings are also tilted backwards in #1 because of the camera tilted upwards, that can be corrected fairly easily, just google for keystoning fix. If you shot slightly earlier at say 7:00-7:15pm, you'll probably get a more interesting sky and better reflections too.

 

[manutd8613]

out of focus ....