Angel of death before and after

Just came back from Florida's vacation. Was at Epcot (DIsney World) took a shot of an angel at Italian's pavillion. Played with it in Lightroom. Was going to add this picture to my website to my "travel pictures" not as portfolio piece. My hubby says he doesn't like it. I think it makes angel to stand out. Here's a picture of before/after comparison.
Had to downsize it a lot in order to meet uploading requirmenets so might have lots of grin/pixelated.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

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I like what you have done with the exception of the heavy vignette. I'd either lighten or remove the vignette.

IMO, I like what you did overall, focus is okay, dof okay could be deeper - two small personal thoughts on your PP too much contrast and saturation and don't like the vignette - but that is just my opinion - subject matter is certainly personal - the mood you created does not appeal to me - but if you like it - great! However just keep shooting - photography is wonderful part of being creative so find your style and keep shooting to improve because we all can improve

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The processing is too heavy. Every facet of it. Simple levels and curves adjust would have been sufficient here.

sarch99 wrote in post #12571809
I like what you have done with the exception of the heavy vignette. I'd either lighten or remove the vignette.

I agree. The vignette is way too heavy!

I like the edit as is

the intend was to make the angel stand out and make it dark / death like image. Thanks for the feedbacks

Crop it. The stand and surroundings add nothing.

Drop the vignette. Nice processing but a bit too much of it.

crashthenet44 wrote in post #12572088
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The processing is too heavy. Every facet of it. Simple levels and curves adjust would have been sufficient here.

Agree...

Where have you been Crash??????

Thanks all for feedback. Much appreciated.

I don't want to have bunch of "regular" images on my flickr's page. I want to experiment with photos and do something different with them. Bring out subjects on photos more, make harsh colors that pop out at you. There are some photos that deserve "calming" look but this one wasn't to be one of them.

Here's another composition with the same angel. Had to crop and down size image a lot due to forums's requiements.

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I actually like the vig on the first shot... Maybe give the flowers some more pop somehow.

Making photos "your own" is a good thing, but making photos look as though they have been heavily processes usually doesn't work well, at least not all the time. Take your time, do not rely on processing to give you a great photo.

do you have a black and white of this angel?