What did i do wrong?

[net_tech]

Would love hear what I did wrong here, other than it was taken way before the sunset.

http://mx03.homeip.net/IMG_2616.jpg

Thanks

[aroundlsu]

Well other than you didn't link the image properly for us to see it...

There is too much uninteresting sky. 40% of the image is boring sky. I would have moved closer to the edge of that hill and shot more down to get more landscape and just a touch of sky.

..or waited until sunset for a better sky.

[net_tech]

OK. Fixed the link so you can see the image properly. Now i Need to work on the 2nd part.

How much sky sould be shown presentage wise?

[jetcode]

The sky represents wasted canvas. Image the entire image as a canvas. The rest of the image is quite nice. Take your crop tool and try cropping the sky out, some of the grass at the bottom and some of the image on the right side. The subject is that beautiful white building. Place it in the image using the crop tool. Now had you used a longer lens the white building would have been closer and filled the canvas or frame better but sometimes with primes you will not have what it takes to fill the frame correctly.

[Robert_Lay]

+1 on the sky and cropping to improve.

[aroundlsu]

Instead of cropping why don't you just go back and reshoot it? You will learn more that way and get a better image.

[HastyPhoto]

valley forge, i used to shoot there all the time. your image is "snap shotish" no real focus on anything, nothing in the fg to lead the viewer into the photo, difficult to figure out what your supposed to be looking at besides an overall flat scene. and the branch upper left certainly doesnt help. howd i do? :D

[djvkool]

I'd say lower angle and put some interesting foreground will improve the picture by heaps...

knee-height, if you can't find interesting foreground, pick up some flip-flop sandal and use that as foreground object

[masayako]

1. Composition
2. lack of interesting subject
3. lack of interesting clouds

[Flo]

Beautiful rolling pastures..I would like to see the brick/stone house more! Try a panorama maybe?

[drumsfield]

Too much sky
Doesn't show intent.
The sky is a bit washed out.
You have a stray branch on the top left corner.
Shooting at morning or dusk would've made the light better.
The house is way too centered. Rule of 3rds.

I assume the the small white house was the subject. You could tighten up on the house and lose most of the sky and outside uninteresting space.

[Flo]

Too much sky
Doesn't show intent.
The sky is a bit washed out.
You have a stray branch on the top left corner.
Shooting at morning or dusk would've made the light better.
The house is way too centered. Rule of 3rds.

I assume the the small white house was the subject. You could tighten up on the house and lose most of the sky and outside uninteresting space.

I think the outside space is the focus, for me anyways? Had the outbuilding been another color, I don't think it would be seen as the main subject.

[Titus213]

Now I'd take a different approach. I've lived with an artist (my wife) for 40+ years now and she just loves clouds. They can easily become the center of any painting she works on.

Your clouds are a bit too bright but could be fixed to be a lot more dramatic. In camera I might expose differently (to give the sky some drama) and include a major piece of the sky and a minor section of the landscape including the stone building on the left and the white out building.