>>4473886>>4473878Okay, let me first tell you why I like my photo, and then you will tell me why it's actually shit.
Lets start with the obvious, the reason I went to the waterside that evening - majestic sunset with dramatic clouds.
I like how I was able to capture both, the sun to the right, warm and bright, illuminating every layer of the scene.
The clouds to the left, cold and dark, balancing it out. Interplay between the two in the middle and everywhere, the gesture of the cloud "reaching" for the sun, almost covering it but not quite.
Next, the background. On the left, the farthermost commieblocks perched a top of the hill, cold and blue, with just a bit of sunlight to make them less flat.
On the right, sunlit silhouettes, the sun dominates everything, without destroying the scene. Which is why the anon complained about HDR, probably.
In the middle, another big subject, a new district in the process of being created where once there was an overgrown park, completely abandoned by the authorities.
Still, I loved that place, a piece of wild nature in our big city.
It's semi-built state lets more light in, creating some nice highlights together with the mirror-like surface of buildings already finished. The exposed skeletons of those giant, man-made constructions make it more interesting as well, at least to me as I like machinery, industry and other testaments to the power of humanity.
In a way, this photo helped me to resolve the conflicting feelings I've had about the whole park-into-district thing, by showing me how beautiful the whole area can be, a blend of nature and civilization, as even after the construction, there will still be plenty of greenery around.
Which is the next, albeit humble, layer/subject. I like it for the aforementioned blend, the fact that it adds another color to the palette, and all of the beautiful highlights.
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