Solitude Sunset

Hey everyone this is my first post on here so if i make any mistakes on format or size or anything, please be easy on me. Anyways i took this picture awhile ago, probably last summer up in Kamloops, BC behide my house. Found it on my computer and thought i would post it up for some constructive critisms

so throw them at me

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Pretty nice. Like the colors. The foreground looks real grainy to me though.

Nice use of the rule of 3rds. I would have avoided including any foreground. It's just a big dark mass that is quite distracting. Otherwise, a nice silhouette

The composition in in the ball park. The exposure of the sky seems fine, but the foreground is too dark. Read up on ND grads for how to fix this

Several big no no's here.

1) way to much use of foreground thats not exposed properly.
Always, if you underexpose the fore, crop for the aft. To include both at near thirds is ugly.

2) Focus
You focused on the tree, it is not really the main subject.

3) Focus Failure.
The clouds were the main subject of the matter here. You failed to focus on them. The tree foreground could have been forgiven if you had focused on the clouds. However, there wasn't that much action to make it exceptional, tho the colors are nice.

4) Compression
You over compressed your photo. It shows banding in the sky at a high rate. An acceptable file is 200k and up, depending on hosting. Your file is a mere 42 k . Up the compression rate to 200k or better and it would get rid of the banding.

5) Crop
Crop out that foreground and the top of the sky and just leave enough of the foreground and above the skyline of the clouds to improve this photo 100%

thanks for those tips, ya i didnt know what size to put it on as so i just compressed it like that, so heres the same one croped and resized at a level i hope is better

anyways keep them coming

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Hey! I like this one a lot better! Great job!

awesome, ya i like it alot better aswell, still couldnt get the size right but whatever

Meh, personally I don't think the size matters that much on here. Where it matters is in your gallery and when you print it.

2nd is a better edit of a nice capture...

Avi

ya i just had them printed and there remarkable clear compared to these, but with the world turning digital what u see on the computer is almost getting more important, however the full version is still very crisp

The file size that you can upload to this site is very limited. If you want to show your images in all their glory, I would recommend signing up to an image hosting site, and then embedding the files instead.