The sunrise

[SaraEdge]

The sun early in the morning





please let me now what you think =]

[jiminyClickit]

SaraEdge,

First thing to ask yourself: is this what I saw? Is it what I wanted others to see and appreciate? Other things that will eventually help the look of your photos:

- Try different positions for placing your subject. Centering rarely works for landscapes, sunsets, people, etc. If the "Rule of Thirds" is new to you, here's a good beginning:

http://digital-photography-school.co...ule-of-thirds/

- Avoid stray dark distractions, such as the upper right black triangle above. If it doesn't add to the "story" of your photo or enhance it, try not to include it when framing the shot.

- To get better color without the "big white blob" effect, try shooting with the Sun still partially filtered through the trees.

- Think about adding to the foreground. As it is, there's grayish blue, black, and the white blob ringed with orange. A cloudy blue sky would help, or a partially lit foreground object, anything more than what your camera has recorded.

Search around DPS and Flickr, compare the photos there with yours and do a critique of your own. Everyone starts out with what they know, and just adds to that knowledge over time. DPS can give you many possibilities to try. Practice will do the rest. Let us know if we can help.

[RexK_Cozumel]

when I first saw this I thought that you shot it out your car window based on the black triangle in the upper right corner. But upon closer inspection I see that you shot this out of a house widow. If I look very very very closely I can just barely make out a house and road and sidewalk and some grass. There is another black siloutte in the bottom left and I dont know what that was/is.

As for suggestions on improving this shot.....
Suggestions for improving your future shots. Basically what Jiminy said try to get some more light in your foreground and/or reduce the amount of light in the sky. This can be done by filtering the sun through the trees as Jiminy sugested or you can get a Grad ND filter to help even out the exposure of the sky and land. Also rule of thirds works well for sunsets/sunrise shots unless you have something else in the foreground that you want to place emphasis on the sun looks real nice on the third lines and the horizen looks nice on the third lines as well.

Hope it helps. Oh and you should really check out some examples on flickr or on DPS there are a ton out there and it will really help you improve.