Thanks for critique

[gotrocks]

Up early this morn, wife to hospital for CT scan.
Quick stop and couple of clicks.
Back home try some cloning. What say you?

[Greg McCary]

I think you need a ND grad filter to bring up the foreground. It's to dark. The thing about beautiful sunrises and sets is to find something interesting to put under them..

[Anbesol]

Agree with greg on foreground detail. I think you've also put way too much of the foreground in the image, for these sorts of sky scenes only a small amount of foreground is needed and if you want the silhouette effect, the silhouette should be clearly defined, as is the trees show us very little detail.

The texture in the clouds looks a bit too sharp in the last one..

[armando_m]

Wonderful clouds

agree that the foreground needs more light, simpler with a graduated filter, also doable adjusting the light in post processing but can be complicated to do it right

[wfooshee]

The second is my favorite, because the tree is the only thing sticking up into the sky. A power pole with a transformer is just . . . . ugly.

I would crop the bottom, removing the roads that go across the picture. Then the foreground wouldn't really matter, it's just silhouettes against the sky, and the sky becomes the subject.

[gotrocks]

Thank you ALL, I had already decided "too much foreground"
Yep the " power pole with a transformer is just . . . . ugly."
If I had not thought I could clone them out I would have not stopped
to take the pic.
I don't think I can get a filter for my Sony.???
Thank you again for your opinions.
Norris