This is one of those shots.
I live near an office park with a pretty reflective building. I've been thinking about trying to get a sunset photo reflecting off the building for a while now, but I have younger kids and sunsets and bedtimes coincide with each other for a good portion of the year. One morning I noticed that sunrises were fairly colorful, but instead of getting a reflection standing in a field I was now in a parking lot.
Reasons why I'm not a fan of this shot:
- parking lot! I could crop it out, but then there would be nothing in the foreground and I'm not sure I would be a fan
- I shot this with my 35mm, which means that I was fairly close to the building and looking up. This means less sunrise in the reflection (oh, you mean that's what the color in the bottom right is?). I should have probably used the long end of my telephoto, but I didn't have it with me and also didn't have much time
- The joys of architectural photography without a tilt shift lens
- I should have squared up to the building a bit better so at least one line was vertical
Live and learn. I'll try again this summer when the sun goes down after the kids are asleep and I have more time.
You can fake the tilt shift look in a lot of editors. Assuming you mean adjusting the perspective so the top of the building has the same scale as the bottom. I’ve done this a few times with solid results.
Thanks for the tip, I will look into this the next go-round!
For one, I appreciate you being real with your photos.
Thanks! We all learn by trial and error, why not share our failures/learning opportunities for the benefit of ourselves (feedback!) and others (insight into the though process)?