Reflection. C&C Welcome

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

It was clicked from Baiyoke Tower, Bangkok. I really liked this reflection so thought of capturing it. M not sure if it will work good with BW? (I have a mixed feeling for it. BW version also attached.)

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended)

Colored Version :


Black & White Version :

[rachel]

Oh, I like both of those very much. I'm not really a B/W fan and of course I prefer the colour, but I was wondering how easy it would be to b/w one part and not the other? I mean to B/w the people but to leave the city in colour (or vice versa)? I love the colours of the city but think the people are better in B/w.

[Shadowman]

Nicely done, I like the color version as a composite and like the conversion of the city scene.

[Manfred M]

Nice shot(s) Raj - there must be a story associated with this image.

One issue you might want to look at is the hard edge between the light and dark elements of the image at the top left (I've marked it with a red arrow). I think it might look better with more of a transition here, rather than the hard edge.

[bnnrcn]

I prefer the color version , very interesting and colorful image

[DEAN01]

Both nicely captured, Raj.

[fotugraphy]

Oh, I like both of those very much. I'm not really a B/W fan and of course I prefer the colour, but I was wondering how easy it would be to b/w one part and not the other? I mean to B/w the people but to leave the city in colour (or vice versa)? I love the colours of the city but think the people are better in B/w.

thanks a lot for your kind suggestion and review

[fotugraphy]

Nicely done, I like the color version as a composite and like the conversion of the city scene.

thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

Nice shot(s) Raj - there must be a story associated with this image.

One issue you might want to look at is the hard edge between the light and dark elements of the image at the top left (I've marked it with a red arrow). I think it might look better with more of a transition here, rather than the hard edge.

thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion sir. This hard edge is the mirror on the pillar. Any suggestions how to deal with it? I tried to crop initially but then i was loosing the balance in the frame. Please suggest.

[fotugraphy]

I prefer the color version , very interesting and colorful image

thanks a lot for your valuable review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

Both nicely captured, Raj.

thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[george013]

I was wondering how reflection could give me a "positive" image of the towers. But I now realize that the buildings are not the reflection, but the people. Good captured.

George

[Kaye Leggett]

thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion sir. This hard edge is the mirror on the pillar. Any suggestions how to deal with it? I tried to crop initially but then i was loosing the balance in the frame. Please suggest.

Could you brush some blur into this area to a similar level of the prople on the right - I would think the balance of the photo would not be affected.

Lovely shots by the way - love them both for different reasons but if I were wall hanging, I would put the colour version up

[Manfred M]

thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion sir. This hard edge is the mirror on the pillar. Any suggestions how to deal with it? I tried to crop initially but then i was loosing the balance in the frame. Please suggest.

Raj - I don't see an obvious solution other than a reshoot so that there is more continuity in the image and the mirrored pillar gets cut out of the image. It just adds something that looks quite strange in the shot and it shouldn't be something that the viewer's eyes get distracted by.

[pnodrog]

I like the colour version and I do not find the wall/edge that worries Manfred particularly distracting. Would be better without it but not a big problem for me. Have you considered cropping some off the bottom so none of the street is seen. I do not think the very bottom adds anything and the picture just seems more unified if you make the reflections the most dominant element.

[Friso]

Hmmm, I like the coloured version very much. Because I am not a B&W fan. But the peoples reflections in it, I don't know. I think the photo is much better without the peoples standing above and the reflections.

[just me]

Although I like B/W images very much, but in this instance I prefer definitely the coulor image....somewhat the b/w/ image looks a bit " untidy " to me, cannot explain why, but perhaps the reflections ?

Griddi.......

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Raj,

I'm another one that immediately thought to monochrome the people half of the image, or at least, vastly reduce the saturation; those reds and blues really attract the eye.

With regard to that sharp edge Manfred pointed out, if mine, I'd 'clone extend' the ceiling tiles and dark walls over it.


I have to confess that I am still trying to understand what I am looking at - I assume it is the city lights viewed through a glass floor cantilevered outside the building, with the reflection of the inside of the building, part of me wonders why the reflection isn't inverted though - if it is a double reflection, then I have lost the 'construct' (in my head) of what I am seeing.


Bottom line is, I find the view far more appealing than the combination, I'm trying to mentally 'filter out' all the reflections. If I had access, I'd shoot with a (circ.) polariser and remove the distractions entirely - but that's not what you perhaps want to hear

That said, I can understand why, if the scene is as I imagine, you would take a shot (as would I), but for people un-used to the view, we find that more interesting - and in colour, of course.

Cheers, Dave

[Rebel]

I like them both Raj, very nice!

[george013]

Hi Raj,

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I have to confess that I am still trying to understand what I am looking at - I assume it is the city lights viewed through a glass floor cantilevered outside the building, with the reflection of the inside of the building, part of me wonders why the reflection isn't inverted though - if it is a double reflection, then I have lost the 'construct' (in my head) of what I am seeing.....

Cheers, Dave

It took some time for me too. I think it's shot just through the windows. If you look at the info of that tower a lot will be explained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiyoke_Tower_II

I like the picture, but it's one you've to know what you're looking at.

George

George