Alone in NY (C&C) Please

I was out one evening waiting to capture NYC at dusk, and as I finished setting up my tripod this child walked into the frame and peacefully stood pondering and looking at the incoming waves.
I quickly set-up and shot a few candid frames before the child walked away.

I was hoping to get some feedback on this shot.

Assuming that you want to achieve a sense of loneliness by putting the child in the frame, I'd pick a more suitable angle and a closer zoom that brings a little more attention to the child, less so to the landscape.

I'd also pick a more faster shutter to freeze him in stillness. A little PP like desaturation and added vignetting would put more emphasis a;sp in what you're trying to achive.

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Cheers, Reza

there are some dirt spots on your lens/sensor that you can try cleaning or fix them in PP (they are more visible in the sky area of your picture)

Yeah I noticed those as well, they were from the water splashing. I will clean up the photo.

1/2 second is fine for landscapes, but once you introduce people you have to get that shutter speed up.
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FotoPrekol said:

I was out one evening waiting to capture NYC at dusk, and as I finished setting up my tripod this child walked into the frame and peacefully stood pondering and looking at the incoming waves.
I quickly set-up and shot a few candid frames before the child walked away.

I was hoping to get some feedback on this shot.

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Compositionally, I think it's pretty good, although it seems a bit too heavy on the left (especially since the left has a brownish hue vs. the blue hue on the right).

What strikes me, though, is how soft the left side of the bridge looks, as well as the building on the left. Did you crop quite a bit from the original image by removing most of the right side of the frame? The buildings in the background look sharper, which makes me wonder if they were in the middle of the frame. f/22 will contribute some softness due to diffraction but I don't think that's the cause for the left side being so soft.

Dropping the aperture down to f/8 might have been better. It would have allowed you to use a faster shutter speed which would have reduced the boy's blur; it would have reduced diffraction effects; and it would probably still have given you the DOF you needed, since you shot at a focal length of 10mm.

larsbc

There was definitely some cropping (this was shot with a 10-20 wide angle) so that would probably explain some of the softness.

I was setting to shoot just city scape so that is why I was at F22, so when the boy walked into the frame I forgot to re-configure.