What ya think of this photo?

I am somewhat new to photography...

What do you guys think of these photos?

http://www.mountainbikeforums.com/forums/uploads//post-18-1062311622.jpg

Sunset after leaving Belize on a cruise ship 2 weeks ago...

http://www.disturbedfamily.com/albums/USOpen/P8300192.sized.jpg

This one was tonight at the U.S. Open in flushing, ny...

BTW... Are there any other photo forums like this one on the web? I found a few but most are new.. links would be great..

Thanks guys!

[mttmrphy]

The first one would be better if you could rotate it a bit so the horizon is horizontal. Both are nice shots.

[EdMac]

They are nice pictures, but the first one needs to be rotated to level the horizon, and it would be better at a width of 640 pixels. Most people do not have wide monitors, and when the picture is too wide they tend to ignore it.:D

[yappiez]

Originally posted by abwhitt
once people have to scroll around to see all the photo, they often lose interest. :-(

but i love panos... sigh...:(
http://www.bytephoto.com/photopost/data/500/309Salford-med.jpg

[yappiez]

Wow, thats some nice panos you have there.
What software did u use for the stiching?

[Bagsfan5]

For the Pictures, they are good for a beginner. I really like the colors of the first picture. Like many the composition is one of the first things a photographer should work on..... I am very excited to see you grow as a photographer, so stay here with us at BytePhoto..... You asked about other Photo Forums... Sure there are others out there BUT..... Once you found the BEST, Why look for others :D :D :D

AND NO, I did NOT get paid from Paul to say that :D :D

[STaylor]

Funbags welcome to BytePhoto for me the first as already has been mentioned here the horizon is simply skewed to greatly and it also is imo to centered in the photo …. That said it may be worth the effort to rotate and crop the image and then possibly work on the color hue and saturation to add a livelier feel to the photo

With number 2 I like just about everything accept the lights in the lower right hand corner which if you choose to should be easy enough to remove

[mttmrphy]

Funbags, I sent you an e-mail but in case you didnt get it here is what I was able to come up with on your ocean photo....

I hope you dont mind... if so I will delete this post. It was alot of fun. I used Paintshop Pro8.



http://www.drinkwiththefish.com/pictures/ocean.jpg

[STaylor]

Mttmrphy this huge improvement … for me the color depth is far more appealing in this version

[Bagsfan5]

WOW, you did a WONDERFUL job on this photo.... WOW :cool:

[Bytephoto]

Bravo mttmrphy!
You've shown a very good example of how important post processing can be with some pics.

amazing!!! I need to learn how to do this :)