Singapore Through My Lens

[Troy Lim]

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4 different shot taken in Portrait mode. Stitched together and converted to B&W for the dramatic look.
Hope you like it.

Camera Nikon D3S
Exposure 0.05 sec (1/20)
Aperture f/8.0
Focal Length 24 mm
ISO Speed 160
Exposure Bias 0 EV

[Dave Mills]

Hi Troy, I really like what you did with this. There is a dramatic graphic quality to the image which is enhanced by an interesting sky. The composition is also well divided. I was able to straighten the lean on the end buildings by mildly using the lens correction tool in CS5.. Overall nicely handled!!..... OOPs I reposted the original and deleted the corrected version. If so desired play with the tool...

[Troy Lim]

Dave,

Can you tell me what you did in the lens correction filter? What settings?
Thank you.

[Rachel Hollander]

Troy - nicely done. I like the b&w conversion and treatment here. Nice job on the stitching.

TFS,
Rachel

[Dave Mills]

Troy, go to the custom section and gently play with the vertical bar.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Troy,
Been away so sorry for the late reply. I generally don't mind perspective lean.......so no big deal for me but I did +3 on the vert. Sometimes I feel it even adds to the scene but as you can see.....there can be debate on that and I'm OK if you leave it.
I do think if you select just the skyline and tweak both the levels and brightness/contrast.....to bost some of the duller tones.....it gives it more depth. I reposted pretty agressively to show you an example but as usual.....you can tweak it to your tastes. Finally, I cropped. I didn't feel the LH side sky and clouds peeking in added. You could clone/patch them out.....and that too would work......but hope this at least gives you a few ideas. Let me know your thoughts on the repost as I think the OP comp was very good and all I did was tweak it!

[dankearl]

I really like the exposure and the DOF.
Water, sky and buildings all look great.
Dave's repost correcting the lean does look better, but I don't mind the original at all.

[Robert Amoruso]

Troy,

For this image I feel correcting the lean is the way to go. Great looking graphic quality to the image.

[Troy Lim]

Thank you Roman and Dave for the repost. Roman, I do see more pop on yours.
Thank you guys for the idea, I will do more tweaking and correct the distortion.

[Troy Lim]

I fixed the distortion and give a bit more contrast but decided to keep the crop. The reason is because of the low building on the right hand side. If I crop it half way through, then it would not complete the skyline of how I saw it.
Thanks again guy.

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