tay rail bridge,scotland

beautiful shot

Nice

you put the bridge right in the middle one suggestion to maybe make it better would be to crop off the blown sun and emphasize the reflection on the water. Over all it is a nice capture and the criticism is meant to be a suggestion

thanks for the advice,im just a novice and don't alter the pic in any way..its just as the camera took it. craig

part of the fun is the developing of the pictures you take. You will find using the RAW photo and developing the picture is a whole other past time. Even with a jpg you can crop it realize the more times you save a jpg the image degrades since it is a lossy compression hence using raw. If you dpp which comes with canon cameras you can try the crop I suggested and see if that makes a better picture for you. There are general guidelines for composition note I did not say rules because beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The guidelines suggest to not divide land and sea in half but rather 2/3. the impression I think you were trying to portray is the gloomy lonely bridge and the sun is notorious for being hard to expose for so we say the image is blown out in that area. I think without showing the sun the impression of gloomy bridge is reinforced. the bright sun also draws your eye away from the bridge. take a piece of paper and lay it along the top of the sky and see if you like it more then you can crop it if you do