A Very Pleasant Evening

[John 2]

Taken on the north coast of Wales.

Nikon D7000
18-200mm Nikkor @ 75mm
1/500 sec @ f11 ISO 200 -0.33 compensation

[Shadowman]

Nice.

[IzzieK]

WoW! I like the myriads of colour spread on your shot here, specially the backlit of the sun on the horse's tail. Even the little lotus at the bottom completing the shot crying for attention. Lovely.

[bnnrcn]

I like the composition and colours,the light on the tail is very nice too

[deetheturk]

Very nice John!

[Marie Hass]

Dear John,

I like the backlighting and the lighting of this image.

Marie

[Kyle]

I'm really liking the colours on this one. The yellow on the horse's tail is great. Very nice shot!

[landscaper]

What a nice photo lovely colours :-)

[terrib]

It does feel very peaceful, John. Nice work.

[FrankMi]

An excellent composition John! The only thing I might have been tempted to do would be to move the left just enough to get the ship off center a little bit. Great capture!

[PhotoRob]

Nice one John. What stands out the most for me is the lack of shadows in the right 2/3's of the frame, which makes the horse look 'flat'. Metering when the subject is between the camera and the sun is tricky, no doubt, it's easy to end up with your subject in silhouette and having to squeeze out the details in post. There are much more experienced shooters here that maybe can elaborate on exposing and using fill-flash to compensate for compositions like this...

[Gigi71]

I agree with Binnur and Kyle, appealing image!

[John 2]

Thanks all for your comments. You only seem to get this sort of sunset off the west coast. Robert, not sure about the shadows. If I read you right, I can only think that they are hidden by a combination of some foreshortening from the zoom and the undulations in the ground. Bit of a puzzle.

[FootLoose]

Beautiful light and well-composed scene, John.

[John 2]

Thank you Greg.

[Downrigger]

Lovely. Much to like. It's one of those successful shots that brings the word "painterly" to mind but I can't put my finger on why...

[John 2]

Thank You Mark.