A few sunsets on Potomac in Washington, DC, area

cguron · Dec 23, 2011

I captured a few sunset shots on Potomac recently. Please provide your C&C. The pictures were taken using 18-135 Zoom on Canon 60D. I can provide technical details if those would help in providing the C&C. I want to improve the technical quality as well as composition. Any advise would be highly appreciated.

cguron · Dec 23, 2011

Why did the images not come up in the post?

Joey_Ricard · Dec 23, 2011

The links might need a BB code type link, maybe your hosting site has a click to copy URL and offers a BB code, which youd just paste into the message window. (just a guess as the other board I'm on uses that and I copy frm my flickr acc).

Anyway C&C makes a photographer humble -

And these are just my suggestions. Photography is subjective.
#1 - too much sky and distracting trees due to position. Perhaps move to your right and closer and include the right tree, a little ground and lower angle.

#2 - best, but under exposed - shoot in raw and then you can lighten it up in post processing

#3 - That foreground is distracting with the poles, trees etc. Move closer, shoot between the poles - decent exposure

#4 - very pretty

Frequency · Dec 23, 2011

I too like the second image, the best; others are not bad though

I am copying your images here so that others can see without difficulty

Regards

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#2

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#4

cguron · Dec 23, 2011

Joey, Thanks for your C&C. I am going to head back to the location soon, which is near my residence. best. Charanjeet Guron

cguron · Dec 23, 2011

Frequency,

Thanks from Ludhiana to Calicut for C&C.

Charanjeet Guron

Buckster · Jan 29, 2012

cguron said:
Why did the images not come up in the post?

They copied and pasted as links automatically. To get around it, you can paste them into a plain text editor first, put the IMG tags around them, then copy and paste them from there into here and they'll no longer be automatic links.

480sparky · Jan 29, 2012

cguron said:
Why did the images not come up in the post?

When you pasted them, they got truncated, so you posted this:

[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6...b177258e_b.jpg[/img]

They need to look like this in order to appear:

[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6557687081_ccb177258e_b.jpg[/img]

Buckster · Jan 29, 2012

480sparky said:
cguron said:

Why did the images not come up in the post?

Click to expand...

When you pasted them, they got truncated, so you posted this:

[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6...b177258e_b.jpg[/img]

They need to look like this in order to appear:

[img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6557687081_ccb177258e_b.jpg[/img]

Click "reply with quote" on his post and you'll see they're not truncated.

The same thing happens to me when I click and copy the URL of a photo's web page in the browser, then paste it in here between two image tags. I don't usually do that, since I have my photos in a database I built myself, and it provides me with the IMG tags for forum posting automatically. But when I do try the copy paste thing from the URL address of a browser, that's what happens. I've found that the workaround is to paste it into a simple text editor first, then copy and paste it from there.