Sunset on Lake Michigan

Love the fg rocks and the dramatic highlights on them. Makes me want to sit and listen for the shorebirds call. Beautiful light and an excellent composition

Really nice light on the foreground rocks and beautiful color. I don't mind the deep shadows but maybe you could try pulling just a little more detail out of the shadows as they seem a little heavy. Just a thought of course. Really nice though as is. Few dust spots in the sky easily remedied. Must have been a wonderful evening along the lake.

Hmm, you are right about the shadows Vance. The RAW file I was working on was much better, but I seemed to have lost some detail in the conversion to jpg. I'll have to look into that to see if I can figure out what is going on. Thanks.

Still caught some sweet light Walt, clouds or no! I'd nail those dust spots too; they really show more easily on a smooth sky.

Couple things I see here, Walt. One is that the distortion caused by the wide angle creates a slanted sun reflection in the water, which would be easily remedied through blending two exposures here (on pointed up, the other down) and that would have simultaneously eliminated the need for a grad. A TS-E lens also would have corrected that, so would free-transforming, etc,etc...there's lots of ways to remedy that particular distortion issue. If that type of post-processing is not your thing (it can be tricky at first), then the exposure control looks decent enough, given the aforementioned shadow depth. The other thing though, is that to my eye at least it looks like there's a stronger composition making use of the available light within the scene here. I love the rocks catching the light underneath the sun's reflection and I find that using my imagination to make a vertical crop of that scene - rocks, water and, sun, really maximizes every single element and eliminates all distractions except for the slanted reflection I mentioned...however, composing that way with a longer lens to begin with also would have done so. Hope that helps!

Splendid image, Walt ! There's a certain tension between the sun's reflection in the water pulling your eye in and the overall serenity of the scene - I like that a lot. The strong contrast in the light works beautifully too for me.

I love the light and the detail in the foreground rocks. Several other good comments already so I don't have much to add, but keep up the good work!