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It wasn’t particularly stormy or overcast—just typical weather for the PNW—, but the sky definitely wasn’t that interesting (it was just after sunset though and there was a band of vivid red in the opposite direction I was shooting). It was shot literally just after sunset and within fifteen minutes of the light in the lighthouse coming on (not as prominent as I would’ve liked).
Hm… so the consensus is that it is dark, and the foreground is too distracting from the main subject. Something that might help both of those is shooting the same shot (or similar) in morning—the sky would be way more interesting and the rocks would be darker than the lighthouse.
I completely agree: that changing the composition would help as well. Maybe I could do what Morgan did and play with my cropping a bit… or just try revisiting the site sometime.
Thanks for your thoughts!