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Welcome Monument, Jakarta – Indonesia by Frans Gunterus, QPSA

May 2021 - Welcome Monument, Jakarta – Indonesia

May 2021 - Frans Gunterus, QPSA

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Welcome Monument, Jakarta – Indonesia

Canon 6D Mark II, 1.3 second, f/11, ISO 100. Canon EF Lens 24-105 mm L IS USM at 40 mm.



Welcome Monument (or also known as Hotel Indonesia roundabout) is one of famous and busiest spot in Jakarta Indonesia. I have to wait for less traffic and do trial and error with low speed shot. Actually, I took this image as a background of my composite image for Street Powder Dancer. Most Indonesian knows that was impossible to conduct powder dance in that location. I composed it to attract juries attentions for Grand Indonesia Circuit. However, this is a standalone version. I add water reflection and edited using luminosity mask.


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Nice work on the wet street reflections. Unfortunate the hotel has such a dominant white luminescent display. Can the heads of the figures above that are in shadow be brought out more, sharpened, warmed up to draw attention away from the toned down white display area?

There's a lot of lightness on left side drawing me away from central theme; perhaps consider cropping in to keep the reflective edge of black building.

Good job eliminating people and vehicles to just subtle blurs of tail lights.   Posted: 05/10/2021 08:12:10
Frans Gunterus   Frans Gunterus
Judy, thanks for your suggestion.   Posted: 05/22/2021 20:06:42



Pierre Williot   Pierre Williot
Lovely image. My only suggestion would be to tone down the brightness of the central square tower (if possible). I feel that it stand out too much and distract from looking at the very nice details all around. I love all the reflections. Did you consider bracketing your shot?
  Posted: 05/10/2021 17:35:33
Frans Gunterus   Frans Gunterus
Pierre, thanks for your suggestion.   Posted: 05/22/2021 20:07:52



 
Beautiful twilight city scape; well done. As both Pierre and Judy suggested, you might want to double process the image to darken the bright light of the tower and its reflection. Lovely fountains. This is one place that I have yet visited.   Posted: 05/13/2021 00:27:44
Frans Gunterus   Frans Gunterus
San, thanks for your comments.   Posted: 05/22/2021 20:08:20



 
A lively and fascinating night-scape! The skyscraper building directly behind the dancers seems to have a significant visual weight in this composition, and its truncation bothers me. Did you consider instead creating a portrait framing to include all of he skyscraper? I believe it would strengthen your image in the places where it is important.

The additions of the wet street reflections is a good idea. I do notice that, e.g. the reflections of the building beneath the dancers appears brighter and perhaps sharper than their counterparts above - something that rarely happens in reality - and something to beware in oompetition photographey.   Posted: 05/18/2021 10:41:05
Frans Gunterus   Frans Gunterus
Lamar, I really appreciate your thoughts. Indeed, the final image just get accepted. I suspect (like what you said) the overall composition was not strong enough even just for HM.   Posted: 05/22/2021 20:15:21
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