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Sorry - more sunsets , but what a fantastic evening. Had a ball puddling in the tide and taking pics.

Taken from White Patch on Bribie Island on Saturday night. Well worth the mozzies and sea lice!

I'm trying to get more foreground interest in my landscapes etc so C&C most appreciated.

Cheers
Judy



Love the colours, but is it too busy?


tried some HDR here

The second one has beautiful colours, but as you said a bit busy. Try a crop of the right hand side only. You end up with a portrait shot, with the mountains on the left, and the tree on the right.

Hope you don't mind, I decided to show you what I mean. Happy to remove if you'd like.

G'day,

With the amont of light still in the sky, you'll struggle getting mch detail in the foreground in the first shot unless you merge two shots, one exposed for the highlights (sky) and the second exposed for the shadows (the foreground). You could try exposing the same shot with different EV values (if you shot raw)...

I think maybe if the first was shot from a lower position you could perhaps make the foreground more dominant in the image, not sure if that's what you're after though...

Looks like a couple of dust spots too...

In the second I think you're right, too busy... Suzanne's crop works well by making the sunset over the mountain range more dominant in the image...

The third one I think is a bit busy too, the use of the stairs leading down towards the water could work really well by leading the eye, but the path seems blocked by the tree in the middle, seems dark too... What was the spread of EV values when you used the HDR feature? I've never used HDR, merging manually with a contrast mask but I assume it achieves the same effect...

Sunsets and sun-rise images always catch my eye, it's a magic time...

Don't apologise for posting sunset images...no two are the same, and these are great!

I'm also trying to think outside the square and bring in foreground detail in my landscapes, and trying to keep the horizon line from cutting the image in two right across the middle! I have found I shoot portrait and wide angle quite a bit, and keep the horizon line further up the top of the image, or towards the bottom if the clouds are amazing!

It looks like a beautiful spot to take in the sunset with the mountains in the background. Are there any rocks on the beach to bring in some foreground interest?

I love the 3rd image..despite the tree in the middle, and I have one similar http://www.stormygirl.net/images/sunset4200106.jpg, only no time to set the shot up as the birds were flying past very quickly, and needed a lot of PPing to bring out the foreground details. I often revisit places and always find new ways of capturing them.

It's all about trying different things, and if you have the time, don't be afraid to, you never know what you might come up with! Great stuff, keep it up!