I went out to the Cannon Beach area on Sunday looking for a nice sunset and came very close to being completely skunked because of the cloud cover that crept in as the evening approached. Where I once held out hopes for some star shots along the coast I got a world of gray instead. In the last possible moments of any chance of seeing evening colors at all the sun gave an interesting appearance with an almighty 2 minutes left before the sun was due to head below the horizon:
you actually got very nice light with lots of character. just my opinion but as an alternate comp, i'd probably crop some off the bottom if this was mine (maybe right about to where the slightly diagonal line on the water is out of the frame), clone out some dust spots and you're golden. i really like the gulls standing on the rocks!
Sometimes that's all you need is a couple of minutes and you sure showed that here in this image really like your comp here and the clouds running across the sun real add nicely. I would say you came away with a real nice keeper good job.
Good work on sticking around and getting this. My thought was that you should crop more off the top... Just above the ridge on the right. Then it will be a pano crop at that point with what you took from the bottom, but I think it really strengthens the shot.
A fine pay-off for staying until the last. I like both - do you have a version panned slightly right to allow the hill to rise into the corner and close the gap on the left In any event, good work.
You really got a good one here. All the versions have their merit, but IMHO I like the first uncropped version the best. It keeps the horizon from being right in the middle of the shot. In addition, the foreground is not completely bland, it has some interesting "layers" in it, so I do not believe it hurts the image to have so much foreground.
Very nice, not to change the subject, but you are posting machine. I recall mere weeks ago you being in the mid hundreds on posts. I've seen most of the shots you have posted, all great!
Better and better with each crop Alan. What a fantastic reward for some extra perserverence. In my case, I'd probably have seen it in my rearview mirror as I pulled away in my truck. A very nice shot to add to ones portfolio. Well done.
This has been a really fun post for me because it points out benefits of posting shots on here and asking for feedback and suggestions. To be honest every time I looked at this shot in the RAW I kept wishing it had looked like something else I was hoping to see when I drove over to the coast. I really didn't spot the framing job that others prodded me into trying when I first put this shot up.
This end result pano type shot is as much a group effort from the forum participants as it is my own work and I do like the way the last version worked.
Yeah I stay away from the beacj when Portland gets hot. Marine layer always comes in then. Uless of course you want foggy harbor shots which are cool too.
In any event, good work.
