Horizon on my landscape, please critique.

[wal]

I cant see the oriaginal one, but the final result is an eye catcher. Nice composition.

[Rehesan]

Originally Posted by wal

I cant see the oriaginal one, but the final result is an eye catcher. Nice composition.

You are right and my apologize: I deleted the original one from flickr by mistake, but I corrected that and there is again the original photo.

Thank you so much for your comment.

[EasternSierra]

Originally Posted by Rehesan

You are right and my apologize: I deleted the original one from flickr by mistake, but I corrected that and there is again the original photo.

Thank you so much for your comment.

Well done on the re-process. Very nice composition and exposure, and I think you bumped your saturation to just the right level. Congrats!

[mitchgreene]

yeah. that's the shot you were trying to take! nicely done. I love the power that photoshop gives us, but I was trained to crop, frame, and compose in the viewfinder (no one's perfect, least of all me, so I do use the power). Do your best to do that and you'll find you spend less time getting your pictures the way you like them and more time actually enjoying the shots you took.

[EasternSierra]

Originally Posted by mitchgreene

yeah. that's the shot you were trying to take! nicely done. I love the power that photoshop gives us, but I was trained to crop, frame, and compose in the viewfinder (no one's perfect, least of all me, so I do use the power). Do your best to do that and you'll find you spend less time getting your pictures the way you like them and more time actually enjoying the shots you took.

So, so true. A little concentration and planning on location goes a long way towards decreasing the amount of time you spend at the computer. I enjoy shooting WAY more than processing. The closer I can get each shot to "right" in camera...the happier I am.

It's not bad to have photoshop for those times when you do need a fix. But relying on it to recover a sloppy exposure or composition won't strengthen your photography skills. Concentrating on proper composition, framing, lighting, angles, and exposure while your on location will improve your photography by leaps and bounds over what photoshop fixes will do...

Keep shooting and have fun with it!

[Rehesan]

Thank you EasternSierra and Mitchgreen for your kindly inputs and advice.

I also do believe that the PS is a good support tool for the photographer, but just that "support", and should never replace the photographer skills to capture a moment in a right exposure. I do not like the photos that look overprocessed or that you can realize were obtained using the PS tools extensively.

I am the kind of person that likes to compose and find the right exposure using the viewfinder, after all that is the beauty of using a SLR camera, otherwise using a point&shot camera will be enough and then you can adjust and process the image using computer tools, that, from my point of view is not photography.

That is why I opened this thread in the first time, because I wanted to learn how to properly componse the photo in order to align the horizon on the landscape photos.

Thanks all for your comments, inputs and help.

[pjflan7]

Originally Posted by Rehesan

Thanks again for all your helpful comments. I really learnt a lot from you kindly input and put it in practice, and here is the result:



What do you think?

A great save....really like the final result here

[LoveDSLR]

Originally Posted by Rehesan

That is why I opened this thread in the first time, because I wanted to learn how to properly componse the photo in order to align the horizon on the landscape photos.

Here's my crop with both horizon and mast straighten.

[doctorjames]

I like what you have done with the straightening, and the first go at slightly warming the sky, but what have you done now with the sea?... its purple?...

In my opinion the shot is now oversaturated, and has gone from classy to trashy in one swift move of the saturation slider.

[vimalkv]

Like the final result....Nice work...