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13-year-old Oscar Merchant took this photo “after school one Thursday afternoon at Salamanca looking towards Mures, and the fishing boats on the waterfront, with the amazing sunset”.

Hi Oscar and thanks for submitting this photo to Image Doctor. You have captured this image at almost the perfect moment, when the exposure for the fading sky is balanced with the exposure for the artificial lights about the harbour; professional photographers regularly aim to capture this moment when photographing architectural images.

The one thing that I would have done if photographing this image though, would have been to put the horizon line through the centre of the image; the clouds and city lights are interesting, but the upper third of

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