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Comment by Natasha:
Critique Club
Hi there, firstly welcome to DPC, I see that this was your first entry, hope that you have fun here! I love Thailand, spent about 5 months in the country, very beautiful place.

Composition-Content
Overall, your picture is very beautiful, with a fantastic sunset and lovely colours. The positioning of the tree is good, but I think that the lack of focus on the tree detracts from the overall picture, more focus on the tree and the land would have helped this be more of a landscape. In addition, I think that the road, or is it a pole could have been cropped out. It is probably very hard capturing a good shot while driving, but I think that you made a good job of it!
Background
The background here is the focus of the picture, eyes are drawn to the sky and wonderful sunset. I think that more land, possibly with a fill in flash was needed to add foreground interest. Personally, I love the use of silhouettes and I think that if you had got the trees in focus this would have been a great Silhouette picture.
Technical
Exposure and lighting both look great, you have captured the highlights in the sky and also the silhouetted land well. The colour saturation is lovely. I think that the biggest problem here is the focus and only stopping the car, setting up the camera on a tripod and then taking the picture could have sorted this out. One more small thing, the horizon looks a little tilted, maybe you could have corrected this in Photoshop or similar.
My Opinion
I think that its a really pretty picture, I love sunsets, especially intense ones like yours. Luckily, there are plenty of opportunities to photograph beautiful sunsets in Thailand, so maybe we will see some more in the future. Good Luck in thenext challenge and hope that this helps you.

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Comment by quicksand84:
Thanks all of you!!

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Comment by rll07:
nice colors! I would take one of these with a fill flash too , just to see what the effect would be on the foreground 8

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Comment by daydream25:
Not much is seen aside from sky.

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Comment by Anachronite:
great sky! but where's the land?

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Comment by Annida:
The sky is so lovely in this photograph. I WISH! that you hadn't kept the dark forground, and the road which cuts right through the photograph. I love the sky though! -Annida

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Comment by Jacko:
Ecellent firy colours however th picture still seems a bit too dark. I'd like to see a bit more detailin the silhouette. Still a great effect. Good luck.

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Comment by DougPaz:
A little too light on the focus. Colors are great. Take advantage of more of the 150 file size.

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Comment by sylandrix:
You managed to catch a very dramatic sunset - don't think I've ever seen one so yellow. Photo just needs something in the foreground, or some landscape element that's visible, to improve the photo. It would be nice to see whats being silhoutted in the picture by exposing more of the bottom half of the photo (using a gradual ND filter?, would be nice but not everyone has one of those)

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Comment by daxo:
I dont like the blurry trees in the center-left :)