Challenge:After Dark (Classic Editing) Camera:Olympus D-360L Location: Outside my front door, Oak Ridge, TN Date: Jan 7, 2004 Aperture: auto ISO: auto Shutter: auto Galleries:Sky, Nature Date Uploaded: Jan 11, 2004
This is just a tree that happens to be outside my front door. This night, the sky was amazing and I snapped a few shots.
Didn't do any post editing,except to sharpen it a little, but decided to experiment a little with borders.
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Wow, what great sunset colours. The colours along with the cloud formation really do look very nice. I like the centered composition and the tree looks great silhouetted. I think your main problem here is the jpeg compression. Your file is only 87kb, out of a 150k maximum. This means there are artifacts in the sky, and around the tree. I makes the pic look blurry and just generally not as appealing.
You say in your comments that you were experimenting with borders. I think the border looks okay but it could be better suited to the photo. At the moment you have 2 layers, with a line in the middle. I think you should only have 1 layer, so it looks thin, and put the thin white line in between the photo and the black border. This makes sure the black parts of the photo don't blend into the border.
I think some of the comments you got do bring up some good points. The colours could be even more eye-catching if you boosted the saturation a bit more in postprocessing. Also, a lot of people think 'after dark' means when the sun is completly gone. Voters are very literally minded here, so it's useful to take that into account.
Overall, this is a nice sunset photo, but slightly lacking in image quality. Play around with other compression levels to try and get something a little less artifacty.
What a great shot. Nice reflection in the background, and wonderful colors. Very easy to overdo the saturation or the sharpening with a shot like this. You did niether. Great job.
Lovely sillhouette against that marvelous sky. Just a bit more contrast may saturate your colors more and give it even more 'umph.' You may be criticized by some that this is not yet 'nocturnal', but I like it. 7
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