A fisherman

Tareq, this is a really neat capture with the fisherman silhouetted in the BG here. I would take a bit of time in PS and work the area out to the water in bringing a bit of balance between the light and dark areas. I think there is real potential in the image with some work there. Excellent scene overall.

I think this image has a lot going for it, and worth the effort to work in more. I just can't get past how bright the bottom portion is compared to the rest of the image. It is not "believable" to the eyes. I'd either tone it way down, or brighten the rest, or even a little of both.

Thanks for all the comments.

Well, you should know the reason, i used 1.2 GND soft edge, the sky was so bright enough so it was almost came balanced to that part of foreground without GND, and that portion of foreground under GND came out underexposed, it was my mistake of placing the filter, maybe i should go with hard edge so i exclude the foreground, or at least using this soft edge filter carefully.

Anyway, it sounds all my landscapes works have something to work in, i hope if i travel again one day for landscape to understand the exposure better and do shoot after metering correct, and also i have to check out the composition and horizon line and distracting subjects/objects.

I know the feeling with exposure and filters. Being a student of photography also, it is trial and error and learn from the mistakes. On the other hand I like the potential this picture holds. The reds in those rocks are amazing.

Tareq, I saw your comment with regard to using the GND. I have a few suggestions here. The image as is is still usable IMO. I would crop up from the bottom and drop off the most over exposed area on the FG rock Then just work a more balancing in PS between the dark and light areas, especially between the fisherman and the FG rocks.

As far as using any grad in the filed I always use the aperture stop down lever to better see the filters edge. As you stop down the lens merely slide the filter up and down as you look through the view finder. I find I can split a hair line almost doing it that way and never have excessive grad line cleanups.

Its ok, it was my second trip with filters and i didn't experience good enough with filters that time, now i am so experienced with filters, and i had nice shots from New Zealand i will post later, but i will start with my country shots and Scotland first.

Thanks for your tips.

Very nice, Tareq. I love the flourescent lichens and the matching sunset. The fisherman adds some scale and nice interest to the scene also. I think I would have shot multiple exposures to deal with the high contrast. It's actually a lot easier (if you are using a tripod that is) and the result is more realistic if blended properly.

Thank you very much Gary!

Its ok, as i said before, i was just beginner that time and didn't much know about multi exposure, i can edit this picture again to make it look more natural or i can do HDR, in all cases the original one has that issue with filters placed wrong slightly.