Editing

[preetham]

I just used the night-scape mode in my phone to click the picture. First one is the clicked image and second one is the pic edited in Lightroom.
For those who are curious about the monument, name is 'Qutub Minar'
Please help me with my flaws in editing and also in the original pic. Forgive for the "Shot on one plus" watermark.

[xpatUSA]

Too small, too much JPEG noise, too blurred, too distorted, no EXIF.

Sorry.

[Manfred M]

Two things come to mind right away, Preetham:

1. The sky is not very interesting, but in my few stays in Delhi, this is unfortunately quite typical because of all of the pollution. A sky substitution does help here.

2. You pointed your camera upward, which resulted in perspective distortion and the tower and trees look like they are falling inward. Perspective correction and stretching out the image to compensate help.

3. You've already mentioned the logo - it is obtrusive and large and unfortunately is a significant distracting element in the composition.

4. Phone cameras with their tiny sensors rarely give good, strong images in low light settings.


Here's my edit of your shot.

[xpatUSA]

Good one - nice sky substitution!

[Manfred M]

Good one - nice sky substitution!

I cheated - I used Skylum 4. When doing my own images, I sometimes use that software but use my extensive collection of sky images rather than the built-in Skylum ones.

[rpcrowe]

Skylum 4 is new to me! I will research it...