Clouds

Hello all and Happy New Year:

I'm new here and would love to hear thoughts on this shot. Any and all

welcome!

Cheers,

Amy.

hello, ive just seen a few of your shots, if I could offer one bit of advice I'd recommend that you try to keep your horizon lines out of the middle of your picture. Try putting it right up the top or bottom, being in the middle makes it look a little like a clumsy snapshot.

Peace, Nick.

Great start good advice about horizon but you have sighted nice clouds with beach

Thank you, Nick and David! Nick, your point is very well taken. Actually, these ARE

clumsy snapshots. I took them with my Olympus point and shoot. :)

The horizon advice given above is useful, but don't feel that you can't ever place it in the middle.  For this shot it applies, but I have seen many others that are very effective with the horizon in the middle.  My only other suggestion is to try to add another subject in photos like this . . . a person walking on the beach, a piece of driftwood, a bird, etc.  It helps to add interest and possibly suggest a story in the minds of the viewers.  A very minor distraction is the inclusion of the tip of a water edge at the lower right.  If it were contiguous with the other water edge, no problem.  Here is looks like it's been cut off.  Overlal this is a very pleasing photo with a nice atmosphere and sense of depth.

This is a nice shot.  For my money, the sky could be desaturated a bit, less blue, and if I were there I would have, as suggested earlier, tried several attempts to get the surf pattern to be more interesting, rather than having just a bit of it in the lower right.  But I also agree that having a perfectly split horizon is ok for this.  If ALL your shots have the subject in the middle, then you're missing some opportunities.  But in some cases it works great, you just have to get your own sense of style.  I would emphasize the foreground or the clouds (and change the horizon) only if the dominant area made the image more interesting.

Also, don't worry about the point and shoot.  Excellent images are available from those cameras.  They have their limitations, but image quality can be fantastic in good light, and the much more important aspect is the photographer, i.e. YOU!