Northern Ontario beach (Manitoulin)

[vfilby]

I would love your opinions on this one. It was taken at 7:41 up on Manitoulin island. I think the sun might need o be touched up or removed, what do you guys think?

http://www.filbar.org/Pictures/Aug/IMG_5954-sm.JPG

1/2000
f/11
EF 50mm f1.8
ISO 400 (forgot to reset it down, oops!)

Cheers,

[Sailor Don]

vfilby,

Nice composition and good overall effect, but the technical quality is poor. Perhaps it is caused by the ISO 400 setting.

Most of the sky has a very blocky pattern of shades of blue and overtones of red. It is most obvious in the left hand side of the sky. It looks like tiles. It doesn't appear to be pixelation (blocks are much too big for pixels), but rather some kind of image processing artifact. Was this shot in jpeg or RAW mode? What camera?

[vfilby]

The blockiness is all compression and size reduction artifacts, they are not in the original. It was shot with a 300D with the highest quality jpeg setting.. It is a sunset.

Regards,

[Sailor Don]

Vince,

What image compression and/or photo editor "blocked" your image on size reduction?

I would consider finding a digital image editor that does a better job of image size reduction.

I would leave the sun the way it is.

[vfilby]

Photoshop CS. It is probably just a high compression setting on the file or the fact that I downsize it all at once rather than stepping it down.

[rickc]

What did you want the viewer to see here?? It seems a very bland subject, and the only thing which makes it stand out is the sun's reflection in the water. The reflection, however, seems a bit too bright for the rest of the photo.

Not faulting your photographic skill, just the subject. :D

rich..