Evening Glow . . . Constructive Advice Welcome

[Kathy O]

Great glow from the sun, constructive advice is welcome. Thank you.

[Nicks Pics]

I like the warm glow (late sun glow is very attractive on bare trees) and the way the trees make an enclosure over the river. I think it is just a little too flat, perhaps, possibly needing a little more local contrast and/or sharpening- just a suggestion, feel free to not use it if it doesn't help.

[selig1656]

Lovely glow, as Nick suggests it does lack some stronger contrast and in the middle some sharpening. I like natures frame that draws the attention to the center.like the overall composition.what were your settings , ISO and f/stop ?

[Kathy O]

Lovely glow, as Nick suggests it does lack some stronger contrast and in the middle some sharpening. I like natures frame that draws the attention to the center.like the overall composition.what were your settings , ISO and f/stop ?

Thank you for your input, here are my settings

Nikon D7100
tripod used
165mm
ISO 400
f/8
1/30 sec

[Shadowman]

Nice scene, you've got plenty of good subjects (the trees) that you can utilize to emphasize the light and one way of doing that is to slightly underexpose the image; this requires extra care because of the snow. Perhaps isolate the trees from the snow, make the snow part of the composition but experiment with WB, or expose for the snow as you did in this image but process the image to emphasize the lighting effect.

[IzzieK]

Lovely glow, as Nick suggests it does lack some stronger contrast and in the middle some sharpening. I like natures frame that draws the attention to the center.like the overall composition.what were your settings , ISO and f/stop ?

I used to ask questions like yours but after somebody here advised me to get an EXIF viewer I just look at the settings easily with a right click. I use Google's. It will be useful if you get one for your viewer. Just a thought...

[HaseebM]

That's a lovely composition but a bit soft to the eyes even in lytebox. Maybe try a higher shutter speed even if you need to increase the ISO.

[Mike Buckley]

The most beautiful part of the scene for me is the sidelight on the trees. Yet there are very few trees in the foreground area displaying that sidelight. If I had been 100% on my game, I would have tried positioning myself to compose a scene that displays sidelight on more if not all of the foreground trees.

[Geoff F]

I'm not keen on the bottom right corner, Kathy.

Being out of focus, I find it distracting. Is a crop or a mix of crop and clone something to consider? If you kept the same size ratio you would lose a lot from the tree tops; although when holding some cards against my screen, it does make a somewhat 'cleaner' image without all those intermingled branches. Which in turn creates a better balanced and more interesting foreground.

[Kathy O]

Thank you for all the constructive advice, I really have to sit and study the photo and take into consideration all the advice. Thanks again.

Kathy