Arnold Bay Sunset

[Eva D]

I am a beginner photographer and I wanted to get some feedback on this picture. Any comments, or advice will be more than welcome. Thank you!

 

[Timoris]

This is a pretty great picture, I love how the sunset gives a the middle tree its shilouette. I would have enjoyed more of that.
I like how the weight of the picture is just a little off center.
Although I do realize that there are limitations to taking such pictures, the sky is too empty. I would crop it and the left part of the image down a little, as with the cut tree on the right, keeping the off center feel, it works well in this case.

 

[Eva D]

Thank you so much! I spent the weekend at my houseboat trying to get a focused picture of the sunset, which was sort of hard considering the boat continually moves. I will go back and crop the image a little bit.. did you mean crop to cut the tree on the right out or keep it in this case?

 

[Timoris]

Cut some off every side except the bottom, see what you get.

 

[KenC]

You have some pretty bad banding there around the sun. Sometimes this results from doing heavy manipulations on 8-bit files instead of doing them on the larger raw files or converting the raw files to 16-bit tiff files.

 

[Eva D]

I shoot in Raw and I converted it into jpeg. Besides cut off the edges, what could I have done to make it better?