Smoky Sunrise

[csa mt]

Forest fire smoke makes a nice sunrise.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Carol, I think you need to level the horizon. The image looks a bit tilted

[csa mt]

Hmmm. Are you referring to the hill in the foreground? That hill does indeed slope down towards the left, as the image shows.

[bnnrcn]

No Carol, the mountains at the back looks a bit tilted. I think a slight clokwise rotation would fix it

[csa mt]

I really don't know how to do this in Elements. I have no reference point to work with. Sorry.

[csa mt]

Another "smoky" image.

[Nicks Pics]

I think that's a very nice picture. Perhaps one's instinctive tolerance for tilting landscape depends on where they live and what they are used to. I couldn't tell for sure if it's tilted or not.

Hope the fire doesn't get out of hand!

[csa mt]

Thanks Nick! It's very difficult to gauge whether the landscape is tilted, when the cloud layer and hill themselves are tilted. The fire isn't close so no worry here, but it's always unnerving to see the smoke & know someone may be in the path of the fire.

[Shadowman]

I like the treatment to the foreground of the second image more so than the first. Nicely captured.

[csa mt]

Thanks John! Nothing was done for the foreground, as the photos were taken several hours apart, the foreground is different. The first was just a little after daybreak, so metering on the clouds, the foreground was dark, as it appeared to the eye.