Need C+C on one picture and its PPed version

[marp]

Hi,
I would appreciate C&C on this picture. Regarding the composition, light and everything. I also PPed it and think it improved it a little, what do you think? Do you have any suggestions for shooting such pictures and PPing them?

Thank you.

Original:

PP:

 

[Tasmaster]

The foreground looks off somehow, it is either out of focus or the compression messed it up, i can't tell at this resolution.

I really love the colors and light on the background hills on the PP image. The chimney also sooks very interesting.

The houses can serve as a backdrop or foreground, i don't think they belong in the middle layer in this comp.

On the composition as a whole, i see a very ordinary and uninteresting tree on the foreground, a slightly distracting one at the right, and some good stuff going on behind them (the chimeny and hills). This photo makes me want to take a closer look at the good stuff.

 

[docphotog]

hahahah I have to say, you did wonders on the before and after. cool pp work

 

[marp]

The foreground looks off somehow, it is either out of focus or the compression messed it up, i can't tell at this resolution.

I really love the colors and light on the background hills on the PP image. The chimney also sooks very interesting.

The houses can serve as a backdrop or foreground, i don't think they belong in the middle layer in this comp.

On the composition as a whole, i see a very ordinary and uninteresting tree on the foreground, a slightly distracting one at the right, and some good stuff going on behind them (the chimeny and hills). This photo makes me want to take a closer look at the good stuff.

Thank you very much for you feedback. I'll definitely try to shoot it (at least) once more from a different angle, however, I am afraid I won't be able to find a better angle or place.

Thanks a lot.

 

[KmH]

You picked a pretty good time of day to shoot.

To bad you didn't shoot in horizontal mode to begin with.

Better composition after the crop, but your PP cost a fair bit of detail in the sky and having the big green blob of a tree blocking a sizable portion of the view seems kind of counterproductive.