Assignment 2 ~ Island Dusk

This is my final submission for Assignment #2. (I didn't take into account the order readers would see them, so this looks like the first, oops!) It is another sunset photo. I chose a low aperture setting (f/6.3) in order to have the sand and wave in the foreground in focus. It was getting pretty dark so I used a shutter speed of 1/6 sec. and under exposed the image a couple of stops in order for the land and trees in the foreground to be more of a silhouette. I framed it in portrait to capture both beach and sky and I deliberately framed it so the angle of the water would lead the eye toward the back of the photo at a diagonal. I think this works because the land, mountain and the layers of clouds are all horizontal and framing it with the waves horizontal would have made the image seem blocky. The image is not cropped and was processed in Lightroom.