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Originally Posted by Wil  i think the last picture of the city skyline could have been taken at a better time (dusk perhaps.) As you can see the sky in the top left hand side of the picture is rather dark...
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The dark side on the left can be cropped out. In many cases the eyes focus on the attractive part of a scene and ignores issues that are later identified as imperfections. That's when cropping afterwards comes into play.
But self criticism is a good thing and makes for a better person and photographer. So don't abandon that principle from your photographs.
On a related note: I saw a documentary last of a South African adventurer/photographer who got bitten by a cobra whilst trying to take the perfect shot of the snake striking at his camera! He was rushed to hospital and they barely had time left to give him an antidote and save his life. You would think that the guy would have been glad to have survived to ordeal, but no!?! He discharged himself from hospital and drove straight back to the same place where he had been bitten in order to try to find that cobra again. He did, and went about taking more shots in order to improve on what he had already taken.
That's taking the art a bit too far, but I guess that good shots with obvious danger involved in taking them can fetch a high price from magazines etc.
