Surfers at sunset

[lovelife65]

[Digital]

Sharon, it would have been better (and more suitable to your title), if the surfers were more recognizable in your photo.
There appear to be just dots on the water.

Bruce

[Shadowman]

Well you made me look , nice sunset though.

[lovelife65]

You all are right, it doesn't work as well as I wanted it to ... even the sunset.
:-)
Too bad there isn't a delete post feature.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

I would say the surf is definitely NOT up.

[Geoff F]

It is often more interesting to look at shots which didn't quite work and wonder about alternatives than to see a perfect scene, Sharon.

In this case, I think I would crop off part of the sea and create a 'standard seascape' image in a panoramic size ratio.

[Digital]

Sharon, before I started attempting portraits, I did landscapes.
As a "general" rule try to avoid placing your horizon line right in the middle of the photo.

When I was working, I noticed a sign on a co-worker's wall that stated: 99% of success is failure.

Bruce

[lovelife65]

Thank you for the gracious comments. . Bruce, thank you and yeah that makes perfect sense about placement of horizon and composition. Geoff, I will play some with it, but the little ant people mean the composition isn't fixable
Thanks Alan
I realized it didn't work when I looked at it again.
Landscapes are hard IMO, because there is beauty to capture yet it's hard to at the same time. I see lots of landscape stuff, yet part of the problem I have is finding that uniqueness or wow factor. Donald's direction in his long exposures and B&W are interesting. I like minamalist approaches.
Not a lot of opportunity for street stuff here unless I go to cities. Fun to do that.

[Stagecoach]

I think you are being too hard on yourself Sharon.

There was a reason you took the shot, you saw something there but I don't think you have explored its potential yet. I take many sunset/sunrise shots and it's rare to get something straight out of the camera that does not need a fair amount of work.

I hope you don't mind but I had a quick play to try and emphasise the surfers, just an idea.

[Digital]

+1 to your comments Grahame.
Very nice work on the photo.


Bruce

[TonyW]

I quite like the shot in its original form. Even having the horizon in the middle works for me and I read the title as a nice bit of irony.

[lovelife65]

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, it is a photo from a year or so ago with a different camera, on a trip to So Cal (we have better sunsets here!). I like the edit Grahame thank you. Tony :-) yes.

[Wavelength]

This image is not strong, but soothing; i would suggest a one degree rotation to right side

[Arjung]

Hi Sharon,
When shooting landscapes it is important to get some foreground, middleground and background. This I believe leads the eye in and out of the photo. In your photo the foreground is missing. And Bruce's comment on the composition also holds