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I am a beginner at this but I need all the advice I can get...
Thanks,

Dan Stephens



Dan,

Welcome to the forum. The more the merrier. You have come to the right place as all of us here share your "outdoor passion"

This section of the forum is usually reserved for fairly serious constructive image critique. I in no way want to curb your enthusiasm here and want to be as constructive as possible. However, I think the "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all" maxim won't really help much here.

Here are my thoughts...

As Roman already pointed out, the image is very noisy. This is not surprising considering it was made with a Fugi S5000 which has a very noisy P&S 3MP sensor. I'm not trying to be a DSLR snob here. That sensor is just not going to get you the dynamic range and signal to noise ratio that would make a low light exposure like this work. This image really suffers from these technical restrictions and it's not really fair to ding it for the lack of resolution, color. and tonal range.

Everyone likes a colorful sunset and this looks like it was a nice one. However, a good photograph of a colorful sunset require good composition. I really don't get a feel of any composition in this image. I know nothing of your photographic experience, but it always pays for any of us to study the principles of composition and applying it to our photography.

Again, my intention here is to be constructive in providing feedback that will help to improve your photography. I hope that I've done that to some degree here.

Geo

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