Candidasa beach, Bali, Indonesia

[jughead]

Canon EOS1000D
1/4000
4.0
ISO100

Is the exposure and composition ok?
Feel free to comment on everything else though,every bit of critique is much appreciated
thanks

[NurseKar2012]

This is an incredible photo. I really loved the composition. Karen

[Peely22]

It is lovely,
with the cloud movement going off to the left, it gives the impression of not being straight, but you can see from the vertical lines in the shot it is.
maybe tweek the contrast in the clouds a touch -not too much though!

[brasil0069]

Amazing picture well done

Mike

[jughead]

Thank you for your comments

[EasternSierra]

Your exposure is unbalanced. The sky is blown out and the foreground is underexposed. A fairly heavy graduated neutral density filter was in order for this shot, and probably a porlarizing filter to reduce the glare and bring out some saturation in the colors, though it wouldn't have done a ton of good looking directly at the sun...

It *might* have worked as a silouhette, but you seem to be composing a lot of different elements together that would be completely lost as a silouhette. I would recommend shooting it again with a fairly heavy graduated ND filter, and try for a more balanced exposure where all of the components of the scene are equally balanced...

[jughead]

Hmm I'm new with photography,don't know much about filters yet,
I'll be sure to look into it, thanks

[mitchgreene]

Composition isn't awful. Exposure is. I don't use filters etc, so I have to learn how to get the shot I really want. If you were going for a silhouette, then pick the image you're really interested shoot only that--try to get rid of everything else you can so as not to clutter the image. You'll have to meter for the bright spot and then recompose the shot. Might have worked better if you'd metered on the cloud, then oriented in landscap format and brought the horizion line (where the curve of the hill meets the sky) right to the top of the frame...maybe.

[junglebear]

Composition good, exposure not so.*I would recommend (if you have a tripod) to take two or three shots, one with sky etc. exposed, one with the foreground exposed and maybe one for the mountain as well. Then in PP stick them together and everything should be nicely exposed.

[EasternSierra]

Originally Posted by junglebear

Composition good, exposure not so.*I would recommend (if you have a tripod) to take two or three shots, one with sky etc. exposed, one with the foreground exposed and maybe one for the mountain as well. Then in PP stick them together and everything should be nicely exposed.

HDR imaging might be the newest fad in photography, but it will never replace proper exposure technique. A GND filter should handle this exposure, no problem.

Don't get me wrong, HDR has it's uses. Absolutely it can be useful in situations where a GND filter simply cannot control the exposure differences, or if the shape of the scene doesn't lend itself to a GND filter. But it shouldn't be used as a "fix" for poor technique. Learn the proper techniques. There is nothing about this scene that leads me to think it would "uncontrollable" with GND filters...