Panama city beach sunset...

well, we went to panama city beach for a little vacation, and i wanted atleast one sunset on the beach picture, so i went and took one. lol i know that the horizon isnt perfectly straight, but it was handheld, and my dad was nagging me to take his picture. lol. i havent tried to fix it in gimp either, as i dont have photoshop. c&c is more that accepted, i know i need it. be as raw as you want, i need to hear it.

I like the no people one myself. Did you bracket some shots, or was that it...? I always bracket shots like that, that way you get a bit of variety to choose which looks best. Nice shot though...

nice .. just feel little tilt on the horizontal line

yea, the horizon does have a tilt.

and im not sure what you mean by bracket, but i did take the picture at various times during the sunset, and at various exposures, and out of about 15 this was the best one.

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and im not sure what you mean by bracket, but i did take the picture at various times during the sunset, and at various exposures, and out of about 15 this was the best one.

it sounds like you accomplished what he meant.

however, i seem to see a lot of symmetry between the ocean and the sky. you may want to create an imbalance by picking which is more dramatic to you....the sky or the ocean/foreground. with nothing compelling in the foreground, i would probably pick the sky, myself.

in other words, compose/crop so that the horizon isnt as centered across the shot. this particular imbalance allows one feature to dominate the other.....creating interest as the eye meanders through the rest of the shot.

Good shot.

No people is good.

well, i'll keep my word. i tried to incorparate all of you guys advice, so i went with no people, i straightened the horizon, and croped it. i think it looks much much better, but what do all of you think?

I had a go at it and this is what I came up with.

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i like it. good saturation, but not to much

Nice shot. Brings back memories of when I was stationed there in the USAF. The skyline didn't quite look like that then. Just the pier and some two story structures. Beautiful, white sandy beaches haven't changed though.

Nice images thanks for sharing

Thanks....