Jennifer Doerrie
May 2025 - Nyhavn port
About the Image(s)
Nyhavn Port
ISO 500
f/9 (generally would go higher, but I likely was concerned about that shooting hand-held here)
1/40 sec exposure
24-105 mm lens at 24 mm
I took this picture in Copenhagen, Denmark in late October, 2024. As I told Diana in submitting it to the group, I intended to do more work on it, as I am not happy with the way the foggy sky is rendering in the monochrome conversion. Then, perhaps that is my penance for trying to convert a subject as colorful as Nyhavn to monochrome in the first place! Does the sky need to be darker? Brighter? Replaced? I'm not liking any of my ideas, so perhaps you have some better ones. Or maybe I just need to leave this image in color and find a new subject completely for monochrome?
1 comment posted
Not having seen how colorful it is, I am not missing the colors. And sometimes too much color can distract from the details of an image. The image is too flat. I increased the contrast significantly. Doing anything with the sky would have it's problems, even sky replacement because of the sky in the reflection. So, I just cropped off some of the sky, to make it smaller in the image. Posted: 05/11/2025 14:35:16