Sunset over Lake Onalaska

I like this shot!Pls give a rate to **DRAGONFLY**

This image got 6 ratings out of nowhere one day. I hadn't submitted

it for critique, so I don't know what happened. But I figured if 6

people liked it enough to rate without any request from me, it might

be good enough to send to the circle. So, here is my first circle

request. I've got my flak jacket on. Let me know what you think. :)

It's not fair, all I get around Sheffield is different shades of grey.

 

Good shot, is that water in the central foreground? If so a little more detail there would work for me.

The only thing I might have done is to have slightly less of the deep black foreground. Other than that I think it's a very nice picture.

I've not been blessed with sunsets like this yet.

I think it is a little underexposed also. I might have also cropped out some of the tree on the right...well maybe not. the colors are good a little more detail in the clouds would be nice though, but that's hard to do when you are taking a picture of something as bright as the sun.

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, my thread about sunset problems wasn't archived, so I can't point to it. The gist of it was that my camera simply can't handle the contrast range I'm throwing at it. I do have a GND, but it's pretty useles. I didn't realize they came in different varieties at the time and there's not enough stops. I hope to get a better one by next summer.

 

I wish there was more detail in the lake, but if I try to lighten it up, I lose all the lovely orange in the sunset. To be honest, it wasn't _quite_ that orange in real life (still very colourful, though). But my camera put the extra orange in all by itself and I liked the look. So, in a sense, I enhanced the photo by _not_ Photoshopping it. :P

 

We do have very nice sunsets here. Some are really orange, some more blue (see the photo next to this one in my folder). This particular one came after a huge storm blew through. The lighting was so eerie that I told my husband to take the tater tots out of the oven when they finished and left, right in the middle of making supper, to go take photos! I didn't regret it. It was an awesome sunset. My photos don't do it justice.

I like the monochrome effect very much. The foreground falls away very well around the sun -- well composed. You might consider cropping off the top of the photo so the dark top doesn't overpower the rest of the photo.

Really like this image. Great timing with the shot. The trees on the right I find a bit of a nuisance. If the image was cropped totally sqaure with the sun centred I think you would still enough of the trees to give a bit of interest but it also highlights the sun, the reflection and the wonderful clouds. Only a suggestion and I hope I am not too much off the mark. I still think its a good image as is.

Going against the flaw here, sorry. 70% of the image is in the dark with nothing particularly interesting in the bright area. Basically, not much to be seen, though I kind of like the cloud formation around the sun. Sunset shots are so common, that I believe they need to be a lot more interesting than this one if they are to work. More details in the shadows or a great foreground or really fantastic colors in the sky are the 3 key recipes I can think of. I miss something like that in this shot. Best regards.

you know, michelle, i have shot a lot of sunsets. and probably would have rushed out to grab this one too. to do them justice you really need a digi cam with more range or shoot it on film. velvia is my favorite for sunsets. i really miss the contrast range here. would love to see more detail, but whatya gonna do? perhaps next time, focus on the details that fall within the contrast range of your camera and crop out the ones that are out of range. or do multiple exposures of the same frame (TRIPOD!!) and composite them together in PS.

Very nice.