The other image link works because the light is at the center. But I would definitely say the picture is missing the sun very hard. Composition wise both these image, and especially this one, is better than the previous one as the relaxed eyes focus on the sun, sun reflection brings atention to the fence and then to the girl, and finally settles at the horizon in the middle which is close to all these three elements.
Definitely a difficult exposure situation here! Not sure what you have to work with outside this crop, but I'm thinking a lanscape orientation might work much better. Cropped just above the land mass to the right with exposure better adjusted for the reflected highlights. When I scroll down on screen to eliminate the sun and much of the sky, the image becomes more pleasing to my personal taste and also lends itself to the direction she is walking. I think the sun takes away from the dynamic here! Worth a try IMHO..
Thanks, Dunc.
I darkened the image a little and tweaked the red channel. As you rightly oberved, no camera could handle this dynamic range. As a matter of fact, not even the human eye could!
As far as composition goes, this is a more pleasing image to the eye than 'Gotchya'. Unfortunatley its been over exposed and has some seriosly bad blown highlights. Obviously the dynamic range won't be enough to handle this lighting on any camera, but you have the silhouette composed well - so simply blow the shadows and keep the highlights intact. Oh well, nice effort indeed. Dunc
