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Okay, I'll chime in with my two cents now. I also prefer the composition of the second photo better than the first one. I do think the colors are a bit over-saturated, though. I myself use and like a lot of saturation, but in this case I think it makes the brick look unnatural. Some of the foliage on the left could use more contrast, and it appears a little dark. If it were my photo, I might take the clone tool and bring that foliage in the right rear down a bit to cover at least a bit of that distracting bit in the back.
It if were to take a vertical shot of the gazebo, I might use one of the paths to lead the viewer's eye into the picture and maybe diagonally with gazebo a bit smaller in the upper right third.
I'm not fond of this black and white version. I prefer it in color. I think a soft focus affect would look nice with this subject matter. I'm not an expert at photo editing, but I think you could somehow achieve it using Gaussian Blur. Or if you use Photo Bucket as I do, you could apply it more easily with the editing tools there.
Here's a B&W version (Channel Mixer 10/10/80) of the soft focus:
The B&W doesn't look as good as I expected. The white sky at the top is a bit distracting. But with a little bit more playing around, it could create a very different/mysterious mood from the color one.
Okay, I'll chime in with my two cents now. I also prefer the composition of the second photo better than the first one. I do think the colors are a bit over-saturated, though. I myself use and like a lot of saturation, but in this case I think it makes the brick look unnatural. Some of the foliage on the left could use more contrast, and it appears a little dark. If it were my photo, I might take the clone tool and bring that foliage in the right rear down a bit to cover at least a bit of that distracting bit in the back.
It if were to take a vertical shot of the gazebo, I might use one of the paths to lead the viewer's eye into the picture and maybe diagonally with gazebo a bit smaller in the upper right third.
I'm not fond of this black and white version. I prefer it in color. I think a soft focus affect would look nice with this subject matter. I'm not an expert at photo editing, but I think you could somehow achieve it using Gaussian Blur. Or if you use Photo Bucket as I do, you could apply it more easily with the editing tools there.
You're right about the brick and foliage on the left. I had concerns about those as well. I'll go back and try to do a little tweaking.
As far as the composition goes, I was standing by a busy-ish road, so I don't know that it was very possible to make the vertical version much more interesting, unfortunately. It was a pretty small "park." I was just trying to get as much from it as possible.
I did try using Gaussian Blur, but perhaps I didn't do enough of it. I'll try it again.
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