opinions needed please. C&C

[matt62485]

I'm trying to broaden my editing a bit, and I'd like yalls opinion.

Does either of the first two edits work at all? If so, what are the strong/weak points? What could improve?

Third, though underexposed looking, it was quite dark in the area, i was trying to give it a certain feel of the dusk setting in with the sun setting behind the bench as the couple walks in the distance... did it remotely succeed, or is it a complete fail?

 

[KenC]

On the initial pair, too blue and too yellow for my taste, respectively. I'm also not sure the composition works. The right side of the image is just the trees/reflections marching to the right in a straight line. Perhaps the real image here would have been a vertical of the left side.

The third is too dark and the people are too small. The first might have been addressed with a touch of fill flash, but you may not have had a choice on the second unless they came from the direction of the bench and you were there early enough.

 

[Ryan L]

As for 1 and 2, the dock really takes my attention away from the rest of the photo. I look at vertical lines of the dock and go right straight through the image. I am not led to look around the image at all.

For the edit, I like 1, but I think its a hair too much on the blue side.

 

[akazoly]

I agree with @KenC, the first one is too blue (especialy the trees).

 

[matt62485]

damn. i have a habit of the blue, i just for some reason do that. i see what u mean about the composition, i was kinda of more concerned with the edits themselves though. i lightened the first one up, i took one a few stops brighter and it didnt look right. if u look along the beach u can see where the shadows stop, im not really sure how to make that photo work, perhaps the fill flash would've helped.

thanks for the input.

 

[Robin Usagani]

Black and white on the first one would look nice.