>>3410437>After 600000+ shots That's actually a pretty good guess. The actual number is a bit north of 685K.
>I'd crop just a bit lower down the forehead.Maybe. I feel like that would be putting her eyes too close to the edge of frame. Ideal would've been for me to get her whole head in the shot, but it was a very fleeting laugh and I'm still not used to focusing with the A7II so I got what I got.
> More of an architectural detail than a landscapeAh, I forgot the landscape portion of the exercise and concentrated on the infrastructure part. Here's a more landscapey shot from the same night.
You could actually just swap in this shot as my Diagonals response, since the girders under the interstate are more of the diagonals that you had in mind.
> How would you tame that bright light?In general, I don't--in fact, looking at my Lightroom settings on that shot, I bumped my highlights up to +33 to blow it out more. The dynamic range of the scene was such that either it was going to clip or I was going to have to underexpose to the point that everything else would be black or a noisy mess, so my philosophy is to just own it. I composed it into the corner so the rest of the scene would have enough visual weight to balance out the brightness, plus so that it would sort of be a point for your eyes to run away from along the radiating lines of the girders which were the primary focus of the shot.
