Sunrise at Fingal Bay

[muffytyrone]

The photo below was taken at Fingal Bay, NSW Australia in April 2007. It was around 5:30am and the sun was just about to creep over the horizon. Taken with a Canon EOS 400D with 18-55mm, f3.5, 2.5sec exposure (using a tripod ofcourse!) and 100 ISO.

This is one of my first expeditions with my new 400D, so any comments would be appreciated.

Other photos can be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/muffytyrone

[RexK_Cozumel]

I think there is too much black at the bottom there I would crop out the bottom third of the picture and also the tree in the top right corner other than that it looks pretty good.

[stevesutt89]

Wow! the colours in this shot are amazing. Good work. It seems getting up early did pay off.

i agree with RexK_Cozumel, if more of the bottom was cropped of, so that the horizon fell along one of the "rule of thirds" (link anyone?) lines , this way the horizon would not be in the middle, which tends to detract from pictures.

[Nicole]

Rule of Thirds (in the forum)
Rule of Thirds (blog post)
Golden Ratio (if you're feeling ambitious )

Is that what you were looking for stevesutt89?

PS, I just want to agree with everyone else's sentiments, those colours are fantastic!!

[muffytyrone]

Thanks for the comments.
I was tempted to chop out the bottom part and make the photo more 'panaramic' like, but it didn't happen...

[JaxSnaps]

very impressive!!
I agree that I feel a little crop from the bottom wud help focus the skyline more.