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Hi Valentin and welcome to ePz and the Critique Gallery.
We hope you enjoy your time with us but there are a few things we need to know before we offer in depth critique.
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We hope you enjoy your time with us but there are a few things we need to know before we offer in depth critique.
You have uploaded this picture into the Critique Gallery, where you will receive constructive comments aimed at helping you improve your photography skills.
We are here to help, and to give you the best feedback that we possibly can, but it would be very much appreciated if you could help us to more easily help YOU.
It is difficult for us to offer constructive critique without some input from you, and so you can greatly assist us in our endeavours by providing us with a bit more information. Then the critique that we subsequently provide is far more likely to be what you are looking for, and consequently far more helpful to you.
It is highly recommended that you provide us with answers to some of these questions:
What is your reason for requesting critique?
What inspired you to take this photo?
What were you hoping to achieve?
Do you feel that you succeeded or failed?
Are there any specific elements of your photo that you require help with?
Do you want advice on camera settings, processing, composition, or something else?
Do you have any questions you would like answered?
I hope you will come back to us and help us with some more information in order for us to help you with your photographic journey here on ePz.
A warm welcome from me. I'm glad to see that Graham introduced you to the site - its nice when there are personal connections. As mentioned above, it would help if you tell us how you feel about this, if you have any questions. But you have displayed the camera settings data - that's a big plus!
There are two aspects here that interest me. The settings - did you use a tripod? If not you have steady hands, 1/60 is adventurously slow for around 216mm full frame equivalent... I think the image may have had some processing? There's more noise in the sky than I would expect at ISO 100. It can take a wee bit more exposure, I added half a stop, without losing the streaks of cloud across the sun - they are important.
And then composition / placement. This is a formal view, with a good level sea horizon and the symmetry only broken by that cloud. Landscape format leads the eye to explore horizontally, left to right. There are other alternatives...
By ticking for critique you allow other members to download the image and modify it. I have uploaded three alternative crops, for different effects. You will find them under the blue Modifications button below your upload, click on the numbers to view. They are simply presented as alternative approaches, I'll be interested to hear your thoughts.
Regards,
Moira
There are two aspects here that interest me. The settings - did you use a tripod? If not you have steady hands, 1/60 is adventurously slow for around 216mm full frame equivalent... I think the image may have had some processing? There's more noise in the sky than I would expect at ISO 100. It can take a wee bit more exposure, I added half a stop, without losing the streaks of cloud across the sun - they are important.
And then composition / placement. This is a formal view, with a good level sea horizon and the symmetry only broken by that cloud. Landscape format leads the eye to explore horizontally, left to right. There are other alternatives...
By ticking for critique you allow other members to download the image and modify it. I have uploaded three alternative crops, for different effects. You will find them under the blue Modifications button below your upload, click on the numbers to view. They are simply presented as alternative approaches, I'll be interested to hear your thoughts.
Regards,
Moira
HEY! yes i was use it a tripod. and a nd filter 10 stops
Thanks, that adds a lot of information! It's really helpful to include stuff like that - tell us as much as you can about a picture.
thank you! i am a begginer and i start to learn! i just buy my camera in december and i am still to learning.. i eas use it lightroom for processing this photo
Great to hear from you Valentine, this is a really good place to learn all sorts of things.
Now we have a little more information from you it is so much easier for us to help.
The lovely warm sun is a bit central here but I do rather like Moiras' portrait crop.
There is a little noise creeping in, especially in the sky where the ND filter has taken effect.
I will try a modification and see what happens.
In my mod, I cropped quite a bit from the left and a little from the top to put the sun onto the left third of the frame.
Removed a small dark dot, probably a bird in the sky.
Just lightened a very small amount and added a frame to contain your image.
I did put 3 birds in the sky but that is just a personal thing, nothing to do with critiquing your image. I thought they added a little more interest in the sky that's all.
Now we have a little more information from you it is so much easier for us to help.
The lovely warm sun is a bit central here but I do rather like Moiras' portrait crop.
There is a little noise creeping in, especially in the sky where the ND filter has taken effect.
I will try a modification and see what happens.
In my mod, I cropped quite a bit from the left and a little from the top to put the sun onto the left third of the frame.
Removed a small dark dot, probably a bird in the sky.
Just lightened a very small amount and added a frame to contain your image.
I did put 3 birds in the sky but that is just a personal thing, nothing to do with critiquing your image. I thought they added a little more interest in the sky that's all.
I'm intrigued by the 10-stop filter, Valentin. Usually, you would use it to allow a very long exposure time, getting the water and clouds in the sky smooth, because they have moved during the exposure. For a simple sunset, you can use a much higher shutter speed and possibly even handhold the camera, without a tripod.
You used manual exposure - I wonder why you did that? Where did you take the exposure reading?If you took the reading with the camera pointing at the sun exactly as it was for the picture, you might as well have used an automatic mode. You are trying to cover a massive dynamic range (difference between bright and dark areas), and I suspect this means that everything but the sun is rather underexposed - that leads to quite a lot of noise if you pull the shadows up in processing.
This is starting to get interesting...
You used manual exposure - I wonder why you did that? Where did you take the exposure reading?If you took the reading with the camera pointing at the sun exactly as it was for the picture, you might as well have used an automatic mode. You are trying to cover a massive dynamic range (difference between bright and dark areas), and I suspect this means that everything but the sun is rather underexposed - that leads to quite a lot of noise if you pull the shadows up in processing.
This is starting to get interesting...
