Horizontal Lines

I'm not sure how things line up here. Since I shot from the "side" shooting South instead of straight out to sea. Do you things line up? Any thing else on the photo's I should change?

Thanks in advance.

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Horizons are usually horizontal and Water is (99.99% of the time!) absolutely horizontal - 2nd looks very wrong, the sea will slop out of the image!
1 is only a little sloped. - LR has a handy tool to get the horzontal - use left and rightmost bot of the top of the sea that you can easily distinguish.

Reflections are are always vertical - so your post in 1 is another indicator. Centred verticals (e.g. buildings) are another clue to orientation.

Getting horizon corrected is one of the first things t get right - in post if not successful when shooting.

Center horizon doesn't usually work. Pick the sky or foreground to dominate.

Nice clouds!

NBEast wrote in post #17867914
Center horizon doesn't usually work. Pick the sky or foreground to dominate.

Nice clouds!

Thanks. Is this a general rule or these particular pictures?


Martin- thanks for the advice.

As NBEast says having centred horizon for common landscapes doesn't work well. Having 1/3 sky or 2/3 sky is mostly best. A little counter intuitively a big sky can make the land / sea look big.

You coud look at https://www.flickr.com …sort=interestin​gness-desc - which ones appeal to you?

swbkrun wrote in post #17867946
Thanks. Is this a general rule or these particular pictures?

Martin- thanks for the advice.

Here's a great book "the photographer's eye" if you want the full story.

Short answer; rule-of-thirds.

There are other ways to divvy up the viewer's attention but "too balanced" is boring, sometimes to distraction (as in center-splitting the horizon).