Bai Chuang Shyu  

Autumn Red Valley by Bai Chuang Shyu

July 2017 - Autumn Red Valley

About the Image(s)

I was attending a conference held by the Ministry of Technology in Taichuang city. After the conference I visited the famous Autumn River Valley Ecological Park, also known as autumn red valley square. Autumn red valley landscape ecological park was built as large-scale flood detention pool park covering an area of 30,000 square meters. It was a bit raining when I arrived and find the spot for taking the picture. My Nikon D810 was on a tripod. I used various exposure time ranging from 3 sec to 20 sec, f/16 and the ISO of 400. I selected 3 photos with different exposure time for the construction of a HDR. The image was post-processed by Viveza2. Originally I used my Nikon 14-28 mm lens and took a wide angled view. But I then decided to concentrate more on the pool and lightened structures and thus cropped in PhotoShop.

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6 comments posted

Henry Roberts   Henry Roberts
Bai, this is another one of your excellent night shots! You really do capture the mood of cities at night. I have no suggestions other than the blades of grass in the lower left. To give depth of field, you could have included a little more of them so they would stand out. But if you didn't want to accent the depth of field, you could have cloned them out. I look forward to more of your landscapes.   Posted: 07/08/2017 11:26:45
Andrew Hersom   Andrew Hersom
Nice scene. I think I agree with Henry about the grass.
I feel that image is overall about a stop underexposed (it looks a bit dull to me) and it could also do with some increase in vibrancy of the blacks.   Posted: 07/14/2017 09:00:22
I like it the way it is, other than the blades of grass. I really like the colors in the reflection.   Posted: 07/16/2017 19:14:16
 
This picture is just beautiful. I love the way the lights reflect off the water. I agree with the others that I would like to see the blades of grass at the bottom removed. Very nice picture though.   Posted: 07/16/2017 20:24:04
 
You've done it again, Bai. This one goes in your coffee table book. I love the sinuous curve of the building that sweeps your eye from left to right, then down to the colorful water and back again. Tiny tweaks to consider:

1. As you remove the grass blades in the foreground, perhaps crop the bottom 10% of the image. You still would have the colorful water reflection, but I don't think you need so much to have an impact.
2. Similar to the first suggestion, consider cropping the left-most side of the image to remove the structure in the water (bridge footing?).
3. I agree with Andrew that upping the exposure a bit would add to the photo   Posted: 07/22/2017 14:21:56
Jamie Carrier   Jamie Carrier
You really have a knack for cities, water, reflections at night! I hope you have some of your photos framed and hanging at your home and or office. They really need to be viewed other than this group!   Posted: 07/29/2017 07:31:16