Photography Thailand Forum

[canon]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for opening up a site like this for photophobics like myself.. there is already
alot of good suggestions and advises here I can use to make my life easier...
I generally shoot outdoors and really is a newbie in all it's sence with a canon
350D. Some friends told me this shoot looks great - and I would just like to hear
your or others critics.

[Marc Schultz]

Welcome to the forum Canon.

It is a very nice shot indeed. Aesthetically it is a great photo, but it has a couple of technical concerns unfortunately.

One is that the horizon is slightly tilted to the left. The other is that the sun falls a bit too close to the edge. It should be within the 1/3rd zone from the right edge.

Hope this helps...

[canon]

Hi Marc,

Thks for yr advise and appraisal, I've corrected the horizon with the measure tool but obviously it looks
different now after having to crop again... will keep the 1/3 zone in mind next time - many thanks again.




 

[Marc Schultz]

Your welcome. In Photoshop you can use the rotate canvas function to fix the horizon problem. I took your photo and rotated it clockwise 2 points and then re-cropped it and it seems to have fixed the tilted horizon problem, but unfortunately it brings the sun even closer to the edge after cropping. Best wishes.

[canon]

Thanks for that Marc - mine came out almost idential to your but I didnt wanna fill up another space here
with it.

[Marc Schultz]

No worries. And server space is not a problem so feel free to post. Looks like life in Samui is nice...

[Sophie Elliott]

hey,
very beautiful photograph :)
where was this taken?
yeah marc was right about the horizon, looks great now  :)

[acland]

I love your photo. I hope you don't mind, but I am experimenting with curves alot these days so I added just one curve layer to your image. Punched up the contrast with a simple S curve and then in the blue chanel of the curve I really pushed it up to bring out the blue. Then I did a reverse sort of S curve in the Red channel to bring some of your reds out. I know the colour is a bit over the top etc but I kind of like what it has done to your sunset.

[canon]

Hi Arcland,

Yeah I like yours better also, great saturation maybe a tick too blue but what the
heck.. next time I will just have to get up abit earlier, or perhaps make a tighter
curve when I go to the beach. Thanks your comments.