Sorry, couldn't help but look at other people's comments to see what's been said and what's not.
Whatever I have to say has already been said. And I'd have to agree with Gunnsi as his crits echo mine, word for word (minus the "I love sunsets" thing ;p).
All I could add, I guess, is that try using levels or brightness contrast to cut through that muddy look.
Here is what I think would have improved the image IMO
- Was the picture taken hand held? I can see the trees are not in focus, so I believe you did not use tripod. If you use tripod, you can even go 2 stops down on the shutter speed to make this perfect.
- Little more contrast / saturation in colors would be good. More saturation will bring Blue and Orange complementary colors to meet the challenge.
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I also love sunrises and sunsets. Specially the sunrise when there are still bright stars like Venus or Mercury.
There are some good things in this picture and there are some things that could easily been done better without much trouble.
1. Your picture is only 540x329 in size. You should use the maximum on at least one side of it. In this case it would have been 640x390.
2. The picture is only 23680 Bytes. Believe me I know the trouble saving pictures in Windows (don't have PS now) and loosing information. Maybe your picture was sharper before saving. It is best to use all the 150KB when you can.
3. Using rule of thirds, The moon and the star, wich are the main topic in the picture should be a little bit more to the left. The hight of the moon and star are fine.
4. Lovely colours but I would like to either see a bit more of the mountains (brighter) or make them as dark as the trees.
5. Focus, It is hard to see if the focus is bad or if it is because of the jpeg compression. I know it can be hard to focus near things, like a tree, trying to focus the moon at the same time. Doing this you have to have the trees in a distance, as much as you can. If you want to have full focus on the moon and see its landscapes you have to have about 200 in shutter speed but then everything else turns black in the night.
Really peaceful. You did a great composition. Makes me want tot go out early to try such a shot. And your moon is well exposed. Just a really nice shot. 9
This photo is a bit bland. I need to see more contrast. Also, had you put the moon closer to a thirds line intersection, then you would have added a little more to the photo without really taking away from the point of the challenge. 4
3 - Too subtle for me - colors. Fairly good shot of the moon and star, but does have somewhat of a 'snapshottish' type of feel to it. Composition is good. Tweaking of the colors (although realize likely blow out the moon/star), for this Challenge, may have helped. 640 width too.
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