my first Sunrise

[wachotaco25]

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I took this picture 2 years ago but it is still one of my favorites. I was trying to fix it in photoshop to make the water straight across instead of on a slight angle, but I couldn't figure out how to do it. Any help would be appriciated. Also, feel free to critique the picture itself!

[windrider86]

When you look at your photo on Flickr, you'll see right above it a little thing that says all sizes. Click on that. Next, click on the one right above it that says medium (right size for posting here) Now, below your image you are going to see 2 boxes. One is html and the one below that is the url. Your going to want to highlight all those funky looking looking letters and numbers in the html box. Copy those and paste all that into your post. And your picture ios now posted.
Now, for your exif information. Look to the right of your image on your Flickr page. You'll see a link that says more properties. If you click on that, you'll see the settings your camera was on when you took your photo. That also needes to be copied and pasted into your post.
Hope that helps

[wachotaco25]

Thank you for your help on posting my picture! I am very new to this website (if you couldn't tell). However, I was unable to find the properties page that you mentioned so hopefully that does mess things up to much!

[fletch]

It looks like you may have hidden your EXIF data on flickr which means the more properties page is not created.

When you look at your photo what is the first thing that jumps out at you? Maybe looks a little bit awkward and not quite right? To me it is the first thing I see and totally dominates the picture. If I printed out and hung it on the wall it would bug me constantly and is a very common problem with landscape shots. Its also a very easy thing to fix.

[wachotaco25]

Do you know how I can make my EXIF files not hidden? They seem like they are important to have on here!

Also, what are you saying jumps out at you and how would you fix it?

[fletch]

Originally Posted by wachotaco25

Also, what are you saying jumps out at you and how would you fix it?

The sea seems to be trying to escape!

Landscapes 101 - Make sure your horizon is level.

For the exif, its a setting oin Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/exifprivacy/

[wachotaco25]

yea I have been trying to figure out in photoshop how to make the horizon straight but have not been successful yet! Once I figure it out I will repost the picture!

Thanks for the help!

[emtab]

If you're cropping in photoshop and want to straighten the horizon once you get the cropping rectangle to approximately where you want it, move your mouse outside the cropped area and notice that it will change into what looks like a little u with arrows on both ends. You can now click and drag to rotate the frame of the crop and straighten the horizon.
regards,
emtab

[navcom]

Looks like a pretty place! Well, the horizon being crooked has been pretty well addressed. I think as far as composition goes, it's just kind of a normal picture of a sunset.

My only recommendation is to resist the urge to point the camera, center the sun and the horizon in the viewfinder, and fire away.

In landscape photography, one of the big no-no's is centering the horizon. It immediately makes an image rather boring and uninteresting. Now all rules are meant to be broken. For instance, a centered horizon might be called for when the center of interest is the symmetry of the image, such as a detailed sky reflected in a calm pond. Centering the horizon in this case might point out the symmetry between the sky and the pond. But 99% of the time, a centered horizon should be avoided.

Hope that helps!