Apocalypse Now.

[dankearl]

Pacific Ocean sunset with 300mm lens.
I exposed for the sun, otherwise cropped with nothing else done.
The colors are natural.

1/200, f16, iso160, 300f2.8, Handheld, D800.

DSC_2228BP.jpg (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=117857&stc=1&d=1346635839)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Dan,
Debating the upper part/clouds......yes natural but seem a bit out of place. Love the mody ones around the sun and the base. Simple yet very effective!

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Dan - great colors and I like the central placement of the sun. Like Roman, I wonder if a crop to below the first yellow band of clouds would enhance the image. Also it seems to need the slightest bit of CCW rotation.

TFS,
Rachel

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Dan, a great sunset over the ocean for sure. I think I might be tempted to crop the top portion that Roman mentions out.

[Morkel Erasmus]

agree on the slight rotation and the crop from the top
lovely mood and well exposed!

[Arthur Morris]

Good job with exposure and the colors. I'd have gone for the sun on one side or the other :)

[Andrew Aveley]

Great work here with a compact landscape !

[Robert Amoruso]

I like the clouds at the top but would have placed the sun on either a left or right ROT vertical line.