Sunset at Sunset Bay, OR

[GorgeShooter]

http://gkphotography.smugmug.com/photos/631171553_mjvaP-L.jpg

[lindsaytblum]

Beautiful image. What is that in front of the sun? Is that a cloud?

[tfizzle]

Couple things:
1. The watermark is distracting. Not that there's a watermark. It's just "there" and seems clunky.
2. There's some editing problems that are around the sun/rock area and on the top run of the rocks. Not sure if that's because of downsizing it for web or what but you have color issues and the pixels look blocky. There's a ring around the sun into the rocks and then it offshoots to the water.

Hopefully you can see the darks being weird around the top of the rocks and where the sun is positioned over the rocks.

[GorgeShooter]

Thanks all...

Yes...it's a cloud in front of the sun.

Sorry about the watermark. I grabbed it from my Smugmug gallery. I replaced it with a non-WM image.

The image is compressed (80%) but the pixels around the sun may be due to the extreme brightness of the sun. I'm sure the brightness over the rocks where the sun is, is light bleeding over the blacks in that area.

Here's a version with some PhotoShop work done:
http://gkphotography.smugmug.com/photos/631186953_TjVPW-L.jpg

[tfizzle]

that's probably what made the blacks weird around the edging of the light/flare. (compression)

The cloud in front of the sun looks like a goat :). lol

[terumi]

The cloud in front of the sun looks like a goat :). lol

rofl indeed.

I like that you got rid of the goat, but I think the the OG is better with that hazy ring on the rocks from the sun. Looks more natural imo