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A classic view of the Manhattan skyline at dusk from Brooklyn harbor.

On such a photo, the clouds and the lights are absolutely crucial to the composition. To take this picture, I choose an angle that I likely, and I sat on a bench for an hour, looking at the light changing and the clouds moving. I took a few shots (one never knows if the situation is going to get better or worse) and selected the best.

As always, I post-processed the shot using the open-source software "Darktable". I worked mostly on the colors on one side, and the contrast and lighting on the other side.

In terms of color, I used a variety of color correction filters. I first desaturated a tiny bit the image. Then I made the highlights in the sky at the center of the image (but only there) more yellow and the lights of the city at the center of the more more orange. And finally, I used a split-toning filter on everywhere but the upper part of the sky, to make the shadows a bit bluer, and the highlights a bit more yellow.

In terms of contrast and ligthning, I used a contrast equalizer in clarity present on the skiline to make it more contrasted. I also use a set of tone curve filters to increase the contrast between the sky and the buildings, making the buildings very dark. I decreased the brigthness of the lights on the side of the pictures, and I made the light parts of the sky, between the clouds, darker near the edge and top of the image.
Date Taken on 20 May 2022, 03:25
Source Manhattan: sunset over Gotham
Author Gael Varoquaux from Paris, France
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cityscape, skyline, skyscraper, sky, sunset, manhattan, gotham, reflections, clouds, city
Camera location40° 41′ 59.17″ N, 74° 00′ 00.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Gael Varoquaux at https://flickr.com/photos/66885349@N03/52417950102. It was reviewed on 17 October 2022 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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