This is one of my first attempts at lightroom. It was sunset with my camera hanging upside down.
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Please let me know what you would recommend with this!
Hey Robert, sorry no one's comment on this yet so here you go.
Generally I like the composition, assuming you deliberately wanted to get the small breaking wave in focus and everything else out of focus - if that wasn't the effect you were going for then you need to shoot at a lower (or higher) aperture, for landscapes I tend to go f8-11.
You've got a nice balance between foreground and background and you managed to capture some really nice cloud formations. I feel the yellow could be brought down a tad - it's really strong and in places looks too over saturated.
There is and odd halo effect (light around the edge of a subject) on the land to the left that ought to be corrected, is this a composite/HDR since that usually evidence of it not being put together perfectly? The light should be similar to what you can see at the edge of the frame above the land.
Speaking of composites, I would have shot the sun at a much lower exposure and then composited it in Photoshop, this would make the overall brightness less distracting from the rest of the photo and allow you to see more detail in the cloud.
Hope this helped