Heading for sunset

Comments appreciated.

Great light and composition. Well done!

I like the triangle created by the gull, the sun and the ice in the foreground.

 

There is something slightly surreal about the light in this image. I like it a lot.

Excellent picture.

Very nice, but the chances of getting a gull in focus in that part of the frame is very remote. Was the gull added in post production

Thanks for the comments, everybody.

 

Richard: yes, this is a combination of photos. The gull was shot in the same place and occasion (yesterday), but with a bit longer focal length.

Johannes,

I for one feel very strongly that images that are composites should be clearly identified as such.

Agreed, therefore it was not marked as "unmanipulated". I also just added a note in the "technical details" field.

It is a very impressive image. However, I also have a problem with the gull. I do not necessarily have major issues with manipulation to create a more effective image. (I have a shot of some shorebirds at Pt. Lobos in which I increased the size of the birds and lowered their position in the sky a bit.)

 

In this case, the light on the gull is not consistent with the position of the sun - the gull appears to be lit from the side. I don't mention this for technical reasons, but rather because it jumped right out at me.

 

Regardless, the composition is very effective.

 

Dan

Great creation. Very good and lovely image. Gull is the life for this image, I agree with Don to care for light on gull, any how without gull this image becomes lifeless.

Impressive, like it 7/7

Personally, I think it's a lovely shot with great shapes and contrasts. I very much appreciate your honesty regarding the gull too. When I first saw this shot I thought, what a beautiful shot, shame about the gull. It's probably a personal thing but I think you've taken such a great shot, it doesn't really need that little chap in there.

I'd like to see a gulless version :)

Mark: thanks for commenting. I've uploaded a gulless version, with the horizon also straightened:

 

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3256143

Beautiful shot.

It is a beauty!

Wonderful capture! Regards.

Nice!

I particularly do not like "Digital Compositions". A photograph is what it is...... otherwise, anything you create in the computer by adding elements to it is just a digital composition and not a photograph. The original photograph without the gull is a very nice image by itself simply on the basis of the great light and elements in it. Lets keep it real !.

A real beauty!

I like the composition, but looking at the image I immediately thought "was that bird added in photoshop?". And it was... probably you would prefer if I couldn't tell by looking.