Hi Cindy,
Denmark looks like a beautiful place to visit, particularly for photographers. The big estuary, combined with plenty of angles to capture sky and calm waters also makes it the idea place for photographing panoramas.
Now, overall this is your classic landscape image; the bank by the estuary, long grass, the boat and the sun setting in the background. There are a couple of things you could do to improve on this photo.
The first is the cropping. You have chopped off the bottom of the boat and yet I think this is an important part of the photo. Normally, we don't get to see the bottom of boats because they are in water, but this boat has been pulled up on the shore. I want to see it resting in the grass; it would add to the calmness of the photo.
While I think it would be good to have some more space at the bottom of the picture, I think you can also afford to crop just a fraction more from the sky. If you can hold a ruler across the top of the picture and all you can see is blue sky, then there is a chance that you are not telling the audience any more by having it there.
The final point I would like to discuss is the exposure for this photograph.
I notice you made the photograph at 1/1600s at f/4 and 100 ISO. Such a fast shutter speed was probably unnecessary and it has come at the expense of some depth of field. In an instance like this I would be inclined use a shutter speed of about 1/125s – just fast enough to make sure you freeze the wave action. By slowing down the shutter speed you can then close down the aperture to give yourself more depth of field.
Now, assuming you have shot this image in RAW mode I would go back to the original file and increase the exposure of the foreground by around half a stop – just enough that you can see some colour detail in those grasses.
Make these adjustments and I think the photograph should look much better.
Cheers for now,
Anthony
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