C&C for one sunset shot

[Compaq]

How's the composition? My thoughts were that the thing on the table was supposed to break the symmetry, and bring something interesting to the picture. Surely, it's better with that one on the side than on the middle - or without it at all?

What do you think?

Anyway, tonight's sunset was awesome! I hope I captured it well

-Compaq

 

[ayeelkay]

I actually really like this. The colors and silhouettes are beautiful.
The horizon does look a bit slanted. And the composition in my opinion does work for this photo, I would have just placed the objects more off center in the frame.

 

[Frequency]

The sky is wonderful.....

How much did you saturate than the original?

Foreground is not bad but lighter chairs would have been my preference

Regards

 

[simo110]

The horizon and its elements(Mounts) are already breaking the symetery I think
Could've been better if the object on the table was in the middle..and that's just me

 

[bazooka]

As dramatic as the sky is, I think it's underexposed, but that's the least of your problem. The tilted horizon is the #1 thing that stands out.

After this, you've arranged the items in the photo in a very confusing way. I can tell that the silhouette is a picnic table and some benches, but it's 'fusing' with the ground and the horizon. To the eye, they are becoming one big black complicated subject. The brain interprets this correctly to be a picnic bench against a sunset sitting on an equally tone valued ground and in front of an equally tone-valued tree-line/horizon land/whatever-is-back-there, but it doesn't make it pleasing to look at.

My recommendations:

Straight the horizon.
Bump up the exposure a tiny bit. (Easy if you shot RAW)
Raise your perspective just a tiny bit to prevent the tops of the benches from merging with the background... OR lower your perspective a lot (like, ground level) to silhouette the bench against the sky instead of the water, in order to separate it from both the background (treeline) and the foreground (ground/grass).

If you want to get detail in the foreground, this'd be a great shot to use a medium/hard GND 3-stop filter on. The horizon is almost a straight line. This would require you to make a purchase if you don't already have one though.

 

[Charles89]

Like most people said, the horizon is the big thing that needs work in this photo.

Id also crop the black at the bottom of the photo.

 

[cathashi]

so red... like got fire...