Hello again Brandi :)
First, your question :-)
If you type about:admin at the address bar, you'll get a lot of functions that are not available in the menus. Since I'm not sure what the problem is, I cannot check with setting could be the correct one :P But you can look for anything filtering by quality, image, etc, until you find it.
If this doesn't work, try and reset your FF.
As for the photo:
Composition
I like the silhouette, I like the way you can still see the ground, but I think it was cut a little short on the left side, as you can't see the whole tree. It would make this photo much more robust if the entire tree was there, then it could be like "A tree and a sunset". Like this, it feels a little more like a sunset and the tree is a bit in the way. Not too much, but still a bit.
Lighting / Technique
The colours are just fabulous, your sky gradient is just so smooth and warm that you really feel you were there. Probably could have lowered the ISO just to reduce the noise in the sky, and make it even smoother.
Processing
As you said, the shot didn't need much PP, since it's all there. If it was me, just to make viewers a little more directed at the sunset, I would have used a little vignetting, to close the perspective.
Take care,
Joao |