My new favorite sunset.

My new favorite sunset. Outside of Stuttgart, Germany. Canon 5d MkII. f/11, 1/25 sec exposure.

The goal here was something pastoral - balanced, tranquil - the Serenity after the Storm, which is literally what this was.

Comments?

Rad

Very nice! Great shot, I would hang it on my wall!

I love it, though I'd crop off some of the top and get rid of that little bit of red sun flare. Otherwise, it's a beautiful shot!

yes agreed chop off some of the top and fix the flare and you got a keeper

MommaBird80 wrote in post #12621290
Very nice! Great shot, I would hang it on my wall!

Thank you.

KatieAnne wrote in post #12621299
I love it, though I'd crop off some of the top and get rid of that little bit of red sun flare. Otherwise, it's a beautiful shot!

Fricks wrote in post #12621312
yes agreed chop off some of the top and fix the flare and you got a keeper

Oh, no! Srsly? I love the flare! They have always affirmed, for me, the authenticity of the shot. Yup, you're lookin' at the sun.

And as to the cropping, I actually cropped some of the foreground. In the unedited version, the horizon is centered. I cropped it that way because I wanted to put the horizon at the 1/3 line, providing some ballast for the composition. So it wasn't like that without a reason.

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Rad

I agree with the crop suggestion. I feel like the fields are the focus, not the empty sky.

Frame it!

Ok, well, I can't argue with unanimity.

Here is the shot with the area above the sun cropped by half.

Better? Worse? No change?

Rad

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I think the crop is better. Nice shot.

get rid of the flare by the trees and you're golden

Apart from that big dose of flare, there's little to suggest that the sun is going down. It could be a digital thing but this looks a little too "sterile".

corkneyfonz wrote in post #12622255
Apart from that big dose of flare, there's little to suggest that the sun is going down. It could be a digital thing but this looks a little too "sterile".

I'm not following you, please elaborate. The fact that the sun is withing 2 degrees of the horizon, I suppose, could sugest sunrise as well. But I don't follow how you get from there to "digital thing" and "sterile".

I'm not trying to bait you - I genuinely don't understand those terms in this context.

Rad

I like the original or the cropped... it's an awesome shot... just beautiful...

Radtech1 wrote in post #12622318
I'm not following you, please elaborate. The fact that the sun is withing 2 degrees of the horizon, I suppose, could sugest sunrise as well. But I don't follow how you get from there to "digital thing" and "sterile".

I'm not trying to bait you - I genuinely don't understand those terms in this context.

Rad

I just feel that there should be a little more "warmth". I don't dislike the image but this is the second perfectly competent sunset that I've come across that looks "cooler"than expected.

I like the cropped version, and agree with the others the flare does not work. It is distracting from the focal point of your sunset image.
I really like the colors, at the foreground adds to the sunset and makes this a sunset a little different than most.