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.

  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 days ago

    Edit: this is not the look I was going for originally, but I can see why it might be interesting.

    /Edit

    Another reason not to like the photo, lol. More reflection of the sun coming up would make it more obvious that there’s a building there. That’s actually where the idea originally came from: a darker sky behind a building with a bright sunset.