Just a sunset I caught in Richmond, BC a couple of years ago. Makes me realize I need a higher MP camera, but not bad for my first attempt at night shots.
Very nice color and composition, I like the time of day it was captured at, as it has the right amount of contrast to make the sky really stand out. My only real complaint is the quality of the image is a little low.
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I like the shot, too. Wonderful colours and a dreamy, tired-out-in-a-good-way atmosphere. It's very restful and calm. I agree something leaves a little to be desired, though. I don't know anything about photography, but assume it is because the quality is a bit low: it seems a bit grainy in places and some of the colours are a bit splodgy (or is this my monitor?). Anyway, as I say, the shot would be excellent if those issues could be dealt with - keep up the good work.
I like the overall shot... especially light breaking through the dense clluds. What I don't particularly like is them big grains in the clouds, I forgot what that's called. But smoothing that out should help. And maybe warm up the colors just a bit... Then again, warm shots are my own preferences. Wonderful capture, if you ignore the quality it's very peaceful. Just the thing to have on a desktop.
You have an eye for what makes a good photo: that shows through in your composition. Since this is a low light shot, you either have a very steady hand (kudos for that) or you employed the use of what is arguably a photographers best friend (well somewhere up that list, since a camera might make the top, then light, then....), but what may have happened is your camera has compensated for the lack of light by increasing the sensitivity. Without knowing what camera and what modes/settings .etc you used, all I can do is speculate, but since you wouldn't really want to change your aperture (for these shots, the smaller, the better imho), a very long exposure time combined with the lowest sensitivity (ISO) might alleviate the noise. Of course, your camera's CCD might be inherently 'noisy' and your combination of 'settings' gave the best possible photo. The other possibility is that involving the image format. Some cameras allow you to set the quality of the files it creates (if compression is used). For some reason, some camera manufacturing companies seem to think that we want to take as many photo's as possible while throwing image quality to the sharks. Also, if you did any post-production editing, your program may default to a low quality small file size. Bear in mind when playing with quality that JPEG compression is renowned for its 'blotchiness', while on the other end of the scale you get good quality but incredibly large files (which take AGES to upload)!
Hope some of this rambling helps!