Tochi's Hut

I'm staying up late to work on a presentation I have to give tomorrow afternoon.  Unfortunately, instead of focusing on my presentation slides, I ended up critiquing some photos with Morph.  One of the photos that came up was this sunset shot I took at Woodbine Park on Saturday.

My initial goal was to capture the sun between the lamp post and tree.  Morph pointed out the lamp post was not perfectly straight, which was distracting.  I didn't even notice that until he pointed it out!   I admit, the framing of the lamp post was rather poor.  The tree was unable to offset the impact of the much more rigid post.

The other distraction in the picture was the bird.  Morph thought the bird does not really add anything to the picture.  I had to disagree, since a bird silhouette is so cool!  Had the bird cooperated and was actually in line with the level of the post and tree, the picture would have been shifted downwards.  I definitely focused too much on the sky and should have caught more of the tree line at the bottom.  The sun at 1/3 from bottom would have been a better composition.  I blame this all on the bird for flying too high.

Despite some areas for improvement, I'm quite happy with the exposure and mood of the picture.  The cloud layering turned out much better than expected.  The picture captured what I intended... the calm and peaceful sunset.