End of the Day

Thanks for your helpful critiques.

I like the fog-like effect in the water and the rocky foreground. The sky looks a little bit overexposed in my monitor. This is a very difficult picture to expose properly at this time of day without a split ND filter. Alternatively, waiting until the sun sets a little bit lower in the horizon may allow for some magentas and reds to show up in the sky. Nice overall composition.

Agree on the sky issue, the sun area is overexposed (not much, I guess you could try to rescue it with a linear RAW conversion). Simultaneously, the foreground is a bit underexposed. Otherwise a very good seascape, nice harmony of sky and foreground, well thought the high horizon, and the slightly convex horizon from barrel distortion is a plus IMO, adds to the feeling of vastness and space. If you have the opportunity for a reshoot I would try exposure bracketing and composite sky (sun area) and foreground for dynamic range compensation, and/ or use a grad ND filter

Julio and Carsten, thanks for your thoughtful and helpful critiques. The overexposed sky did make me hesitate to post, but your suggestion for the ND grad filter is noted. I have debated buying one for a while now so I guess it's time. My photoshop skills are somewhat wanting so I'll have to make the extra effort on the camera end.

I like the sky. It looks real to me. You're still doing wonderful work, Waterwoman.

 

--Lannie

I don't see the overexposure either, but hard to be sure without a larger view. On this one it has a nice pastel color which matches the foreground.

I like the subtlety and dreaminess of this. The exposure looks fine to me, but if you decide to experiment, you can bracket your shots exposing for the both the shadows and highlights in separate shots and then combine in PS layers. The advantage is no need for a grad filter which is is not always a precise way to compensate depending on the composition.