Here is an example of a problem we see so often. Emotions run high when we take photographs. I can imagine how wonderful you were feeling at this moment. It is such a spectacular autumn view. I expect when you look at this photo that all that emotion comes back, overflowing, a magic souvenir, and you see the view as it really was. It is very difficult in those situations to look at a photo with an objective eye. Personally I enjoy coming back to my photos a year or more after I have taken them, I am sure I look at them better and see my mistakes more clearly when the emotion has subsided. I don’t know where you are standing, on a boat, a jetty, the bank, but a step back might have let you keep the edges of the clouds, top and bottom, in the picture. Nor do I know if you could “zoom out†a little with your camera, for that matter, for the same effect. But the main problem is your exposure, you are way over exposed. Look at the sky, it is all washed out, and the clouds burned white. The contrast is also very high giving a very aggressive feel. I hope you have other darker views from your visit.
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