Strange sunset

This was shot from my house in Fairbanks, Alaska, using Canon Rebel

2000 and Canon 28-80mm lens, with unfornately, only 800 ISO film, but

the colors turned out allright. I was wondering how the placement

was, if any filters should have been used, and any other interesting

postions that people take for sunset photography.

I would have walked forward and left from where you stood, so the tree on the right didn't obscure the yellow hues as much. You could crop the right & left edges a bit, also, but that's not a big deal.

I have seen and taken even stranger looking colors than this in the evening sky so this is nothing to me. As for framming it is not bad, I do also agree with getting rid of the tree on the left either my zooming, cropping or walking closer. The tree on the hill does help to add a sense of scale, but it would also work cropped in the center or portrait format with just the sunset and vista in frame. Hope this helps.

 

Interesting Colour, I think that you could have perhaps achieved a better shot had you been 20 - 30 yards to your left. Over all I think it is a pretty good image and the placement of the right tree is just fine.

 

Good Job

The tree on the right obscures the portion of the sky with the best color. As a general rule, you don't want a tall tree in a sunset picture unless its at the very edge, unless of course the tree is interesting enough to dominate the picture.

Just to show that there is no concensus...I like the tree on the right and would suggest you crop out the left 40% of the shot.

Thanks for all the comments on the photograph. It was one of my first, and I obviously had very little experience in photographing sunsets, not saying I'm shooting for National Geographic or anything now, but I've learned a thing or two. Still though, the placement of the trees was the only one available unless I wanted to walk a few miles to the pipeline, other than that the place was filled with spruce and birch. Please take a look at my other pictures, especially the sunsets, they have gotten better I think; at least I hope.

Thanks again,

Dylan McFarlane