My walk at sunset....C&C welcome

[Ashleigh80]

 

[Marc-Etienne]

Overall (except #2) they are all underexposed for the foreground. Your metering was probably made on the sky. You should had cranked up the exposure compensation (if shooting aperture priority) by at least a full stop. But in this case your sky would have been blown out. That is where a gradual ND filter comes handy where you can reduce the light intensity above horizon and keep all light below horizon. That is for lighting. In term of composition, I don't understand why you try to center the sun in your picture. You get hard glare and makes for a boring shot. Sunset are hard to shoot, I had that problem too. If you want, more experience people gave me some advice on this thread. Hope this help!

 

[dxqcanada5]

Marc, she is shooting with a Fuji XP10.

Ash you are going to have to work around some of the limitations with taking pictures with a P&S camera.
The lens will be more prone to flare, as your sunset shots show ... but sometimes it can work to accent the image.

Personally I do not find sunlight through trees that interesting.

Keep shooting.