This sounds like a rather fun adventure. I remember my newbie days of photography and can relate to what your saying. Back when I went to photography school, I had a 35mm Canon AE-1 and if I were to take any image with a bright skyline, I wound up using special filters that twisted onto the front of my lens, like sky filters, etc, where the top half was a darker (but not too noticeable in the image) hue. I would have defintiely tried to dodge the sky a bit more and burn in the ground / water.
What helps balance your image to me is the reflection of the buildings in the water. The reflection and buildings combined runs perfectly across the middle of the image. You should take more mornings out and shoot more skyline images!
This sounds like a rather fun adventure. I remember my newbie days of photography and can relate to what your saying. Back when I went to photography school, I had a 35mm Canon AE-1 and if I were to take any image with a bright skyline, I wound up using special filters that twisted onto the front of my lens, like sky filters, etc, where the top half was a darker (but not too noticeable in the image) hue. I would have defintiely tried to dodge the sky a bit more and burn in the ground / water.
What helps balance your image to me is the reflection of the buildings in the water. The reflection and buildings combined runs perfectly across the middle of the image. You should take more mornings out and shoot more skyline images!
~Douglas.