I have a little scene just like this enclosed in glass. I kind of think if the subject was completely black it would almost look like an ink drawing - or color paints. I feel you should have burned the glare on the top left of the large building though. good composition.
The backlighting is a little too harsh for me. I wonder if you were going for a silhouette. This would have made a great silhouette with all the fine detail in the buildings and tree. Composition works for me. 7
(I'm writing this to everyone who submitted a landscape shot) The challenge was to produce a shot worthy of a magazine cover but to me a shot like this is not suitable to be put on a "portrait" format magazine.
Is thi sa model? Nice pic though
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Due to forum discussions and accusations that marking landscapes down is nitpicking, I'm going through them and remarking. I still think some of the landscapes would not make good covers because of their orientation but I am no longer marking down because of that.
I still think landscape is inapropriate for the majority of magazines but I'll give the benefit of the doubt to the photographers.