minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Sometimes you've got a pretty sunrise and not much else. I tried a couple of different positions, but with no real foreground to work with and a lot of messy junk (plastic chairs, piles of life preservers, etc) along the edge, I did the best I knew how at the moment. What do you suggest? Is it too much water? Edit if you want, all comments appreciated. We had so few nice sunrises or sunsets, I wanted to salvage something from this one.

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R.G. Loc: Scotland

What is there to not like? Beautiful sunset, beautiful setting. Maybe get rid of the square red thing on top of the wall and the white stuff in the seaweed.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Thanks RG. I cleaned up some trash but looks like a missed a little. Good to have sharp-eyed friends!

Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

I've no suggestions as I like it as is buckets, trash, and all. Well done minniev!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

The perspective and focal length bring my right to water's edge with you, Minnie. There's a hint of glow on the water that is quite yummy. I like this a lot.

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Thanks Frank, glad you liked it!

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Glad you enjoyed! It is actually a couple of stitched photos. Stitching water is a bit of a hassle but I wanted that whole cloud dragon, and then I had second thoughts and wondered if it was too much of the water

pfrancke Loc: cold Maine

I like this shot very much. Only issue I have is cutting the image off to the left with the edge of the house. Perhaps you can paint/stitch more canvas there somehow. I don't think you have too much water - I like the composition.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

Hi Minnie,
I'll try to explain my edit. I don't think you need the bottom of your shot and the right side that much. I believe that the house can be your foreground anchor if it is in the foreground a bit more and not in the middle ground. I also thought that the shoreline was a bit dark. If you look at the two trees in the middle, they seem to be catching the last of the sun's rays and are lit from behind. I wanted to enhance that a bit and brighten the rest of the shoreline as well to add depth. The last thing I noticed was the bright, almost white, area that is just to the right of the shoreline. I know that is where the sun went down and it is going to be bright. My eye, though, was going right to that spot which is not that good a thing. I changed the luminescence of the yellow so that it became a bit darker. That eliminated the harsh bright spot a bit and I think it works pretty well. All together I think I made only subtle changes to your very fine original. Cumulatively they make a big difference to me; but that is only one opinion. Thanks for the opportunity to play.
Erich

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minniev Loc: MIssissippi

That is the area that worried me. There was nothing more I could include there, just left was a swimming pool with a big ugly fence and parking lot for the hotel across the street. I hadn't thought of putting something else there. May be worth a try, but it could whip me!

minniev Loc: MIssissippi

Very worthy rendition, Erich, I like it! The brown house is the only interesting thing on that row, it used to be the boathouse for the old hotel that was there forever, before all the modern stuff arrived. All your edits seemed plausible and fit the scene. Thanks for an interesting response. This is sunrise rather than sunset but it doesn't matter, the same approaches apply because the light is so similar. Good thought on the yellow luminescence control. It worked without adding problems, always a good thing.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Erichs crop and your processing is the way to go. Erich'.s is nice but a bit of a 500pix approach. Too heavy on the bling. Your understated coloring and his crop work just fine. Love the sunset and sunrise light bit min lol. Little Oly has no idea of the time it just measures the AMOUNT of light available. That's all it can do it has no idea about the type of light or time of day. That is for you to interpret via PP should you so choose.
A nice fota min in fact a very nice fota.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

Hard not to like a sunset. Love the reflection off the water, and how it faded as it gets closer to the foreground. No crop for me. The red bucket (I think from Home Depot) I would leave it. To me shows some activity at the house.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

After reading comments I see it is a sun rise. Dang how can you not like a sun rise lol

trc Loc: Logan, OH

Greetings Minnie,

I actually love and prefer the darker 'tone' to the sky and the entire image. The white glob in the seaweed may be just a tad distracting since it is white and somewhat 'bright', but I like the red can, or whatever, on the wall. It adds a little color and blends or leads one's eyes to the two small awnings on the house, then to the roof, and finally to the clouds right above the roof with reddish/orangish color amongst the dark gray in the clouds. If extended, that can actually allow the eyes to move over to camera right to the lighter orangish/yellow highlights of the clouds more over the water and reflecting onto the water surface. Hence, to me, it seems like it just kind of flows along . . . if the viewer allows it to happen!

I also like the gentle waves coming on shore, which, to me, reinforces a sense of majestic serenity to the entire image. I think you did a marvelous job capturing this scene and by no means think there is too much water. It ALL seems to balance quite nicely, making up an extremely, well thought out image. Once again, Minnie, nice job in being patient and at the right place at the right time.

I suspect your PP'ing was very accurately done and accomplished when you got it out of your camera into your computer? Thanks for posting such a majestic, but serene image of the water, the buildings on land, the foreground coastal detail, as well as the camera left and right coast lines curving and meeting at a 'center point' in the image with a vanishing perspective, and the different 'forms' of the clouds where they are conglomerated above the buildings on camera left, but basically linear following the camera right land of diminishing return all with the sun rising. You waited for just the right moment to snap that shutter button! Marvelous and well balanced landscape image!!!

Best Regards,
Tom