Breakthrough (What Do You Think?)

[kramer_87]

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[pgriz]

Reducing the overall brightness to put emphasis on the bright areas would work better, I'd think. As it is, the image is well exposed for the clouds and water, but the hightlight (in clouds and water) is over-exposed.

 

[kramer_87]

is this one better? or is it still over-exposed? This was another shot I took the same day.
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[austriker]

the second link is broken.

I agree the exposure is tricky. with this type of image its almost best to use a partial ND filter to balance the image; but not sure if its over your head or not (its a pro ish technique). hope that helps. compositionally not bad but just work on the exposure. thats a tough image to nail

 

[pgriz]

The problem with these kinds of shots is that the scene easily exceeds the dynamic range of most cameras. So either you expose for the larger image (which you did) and then the highlights get completely blown, or you try to get the highlights more or less in, but then the rest of the scene will appear much darker. HDR is used (with multiple exposures) to compress the dynamic range so that it can show more detail, but I don't know whether HDR can be effective with subjects that have movement. If one is NOT doing HDR, then the artistic choice is to decide what is more important, and where do you need to show the detail, and bias your exposure accordingly.

 

[kramer_87]

Hopefully this link is better...

 

[Mully]

This is getting much better and I like this crop better just work it a little more. Here is a quick edit.

 

[kramer_87]

What changes did you make? Both of my pictures are the originals and I would love to know the adjustments you made.

 

[slow231]

i don't like the tight crop. the wider crop makes the bright spot seem more unique and interesting imo.

 

[willard3]

Nice image.

You should also straighten the horizon and/or get rid of some barrel distortion.