There aren't too many sunsets in the Bay Area so I took at least 80 photos and this was the best one out of them. I boosted the shadows up a lot until the colors looked good. Then I burned some of the bottom where it was washed out. I then cloned out some of the trees, which I hope isn't too obvious. This might be a stretch but hopefully it'll do well
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Place: 76 out of 139 Avg (all users): 5.1910 Avg (commenters): 6.5556 Avg (participants): 5.1609 Avg (non-participants): 5.2198 Views since voting: 1031 Views during voting: 315 Votes: 178 Comments: 13 Favorites: 0
First of all your image is very striking a lovely sunset but maybe a little over saturated or sharpened just a bit too much
The comments given are all in your favour but I think in this challenge the voters tended to vote for the images with Balance as an obvious image look at the top 10
I think what we all have to remember when we vote is that there is usually more than one way to look at the challenge
I myself did wrong with this challenge and placed an image that seemed more harmonious as you have done with the balance of nature and I scored very low.
So even though you only had an average score I dont see this as a reflection on you but more of how the voters vote, as many really nice images are like yours, just that, really nice images but not quite with that 'WOW' factor of how the people see things.
Very frustrating but keep trying and I think like us all we will one day get it right for the D P C voters. (One can only hope!)
There seems to be a very high standard on D P C with some very good cameras and equipment and some very good ideas
Your image also looks nice with the top (The darker band)cropped off
I hope my comments are helpful to you
If you have any questions you can P M me
Good luck in future challenges
Regards
Sally
Beautiful sky! Maybe if this was shot vertically to evenly balance the dark sillouhette of the land vs. the sky it may have added to the title and theme? Nice photo nonetheless.
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