# Oregon Sunset **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** landscape\ **Created:** [November 14, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/oregon-sunset/9918 "2019-11-14T19:40:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![Ed\_McGuirk](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ed_mcguirk/32/30542_2.png) [@Ed\_McGuirk](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ed_McGuirk)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 10:58am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/oregon-sunset/9918/4 "2019-11-15T10:58:15Z")
This is a nice scene John, it has a killer foreground, the arrangement of the sea weed rocks is very pleasing and dynamic. I also like that you got down low and used a wide-angle lens here. The back-lighting on the seaweed also looks awesome. In terms of suggestions for improvement, as @Brian_Schrayer noted, there is a slight CW tilt that should be corrected, and if this were mine I would take a crop away from the bottom, to just below the reflection of the rock in the LLC. This would reduce some negative space in the water in the LLC. In terms of avoiding flare, there is another approach to avoiding it rather than waiting. You could have shot a 3rd bracket, where you place a finger over the sun, this would prevent the flare from wrecking havoc with the foreground. You could then use this bracket for a foreground without flare, and blend it with another bracket of the sky without the finger. I illustrated this technique with another post earlier this year, see the link below. > [@The Gift that Kept on Giving](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/the-gift-that-kept-on-giving/7721): > > This image was taken on the last morning of our June NPN meetup in New Hampshire. On that morning I was shooting with Ed and Mike Lowe, and we had the most amazing display of lenticular clouds over the Presidential Range. The great clouds and light that morning lasted nearly an hour, starting from about 30 minutes before sunrise when the clouds were all purple and red. This image was taken once the sun was well above the mountains, I wanted to get a shot of backlit lupines. This morning was trul… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/oregon-sunset/9918)._