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This is a screen grab from the 100% zoom.  Can you see the differences in color?  Blotchy darker areas as opposed to the lighter blue areas.   I don't know.  Maybe I am seeing things.  Working on ...

I credit my new glasses but zoomed in at 100% I DO see what the OP is referring to, though it's pretty faint.  Blotchy collection of pixels slightly darker than the rest of the sky. Upper left ...

If you are going to print it (which I would consider, given this one), I wouldn't touch it at all unless you are really good at PP.  Those bands are common from the big ships.  It's not a "defect" ...

I am sure there is more to it than this.....but unless you are printing enormous wall photos or do a lot of cropping, the 24MP would be more than suitable for most people I think

First one is particularly good.  You made the best out of a "lousy" location (with house right next to it) by zooming in abstract style.  Nicely done.

^ Agree with this edit.  Much better with the foreground darkened Nice shots OP!

I would have to agree with you. I use my 7DII almost exclusively for landscape photography. Odd? Maybe. I had a 60D for a long time that I loved and figured this was the next step up for me. I ...

I think he means you don't actually need that, you can get it naturally with the available light in those areas.  Wouldn't hurt bringing it along though anyway as backup

I agree on the "uninteresting" sky comments but I also think the 2nd picture is a good one.  If you can bring out some of the foreground light a bit it would help it even more

My first reaction was to say re-shoot it with a long exposure (90+ secs) to smooth out the water entirely, but then I noticed it was ice and not water :)   So that wouldn't help This type of ...

That's a really cool shot, I like it.

Good call on Grizzly Peak. OP if you bring a telephoto lens with you, that is a good place to shoot from https://www.google.com/maps/place/Grizzly+Peak+Vista+Point/@37.8804035,-122.2489574,530m/dat ...

if you google 'port view park oakland hours' , it says 5am - 10pm, so I guess that's a yes? I have only been there once, a long time ago, and it wasn't at sunset so I am not sure. Looks like you can. ...

Yup, colors are definitely getting better.  I was there on 10/10 and the "main" tree was still pretty green.  The other one you show that is all red, was at the time a mix of yellow/red.  I wish I ...

If you want to skip the traffic/bridge toll another alternative directly across from the Observation Point is an octagon shaped pier, if you go out on that you can get good pics through the Bay ...

Thanks everyone for the feedback!  I do have a couple horizontal versions which look good, but the vertical Milky Way just looks better in a vertical frame I think

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

Cool shot Mike.  I wish the sunbeam were a little more prominent but nothing you can do about that.  Only critique is I wonder what the shot looked like if you were a little more to the left ...

I was out at Cannon Beach, OR for sunset one night last week and I met a couple other photographers who were sticking around for the Milky Way so I figured I would give it a shot too. One of them ...

Thanks! To be perfectly honest that was my first time trying "astro-photography".  I saw a cpl other photographers on the beach at sunset who said they were waiting around for the Milky Way so I ...