single photos American River Sunset

comments welcome

Lovely colors and reflections in this, and it is well-composed across the frame. Interesting twist is the illumination of the leaves in the upper left of the frame. I have mixed feelings about that, wondering if the image would be better without those leaves at all, but I still like it.

good effect

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks.

Thanks for looking and commenting. I had used a fill flash on this image because I originally had some people in the image. I took a couple without them standing there and had forgotten initially to turn off the flash hence the leaves in the upper corner. I have mixed feelings about them being there as well but had decided to leave them alone when posting. If others have comments let me know

Fantastica , una gran foto , saludos

This is a special image except for the light on the leaves,jc

Hi Juan.. i did darken the leaves

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Did you use flash?

Leaves must leave- I would have prefered a compo w/ the branch - it adds nothing as a fireground interest

I had to view it larger to see the wonderful details. By using the fill flash you've created an image that appears to be a green bush in front of a beautiful wall painting. I think the image would be best without the close green overhang, and I'd also recomment that the whole image be rotated 1 degree right. All in all it is a very pretty sunset.

I agree with others about the leaves. Although I like them, they are very distracting, and the whole image would be better without them. Pretty sunset photo.