Critique a few shots from the belvedere

1. I dig the shot, but I am having a hard time getting over the awkward cropping of the arms. I'd try to tighten the crop and go vertical in order to make it less awkward. Also perhaps boost the shadows some?

2. Interesting! Super detail on the sculpture in the background. I'd like to see a sliiight clockwise rotation and a little more room in the upper right.

Cheers,

Jeff

Thanks for the feedback. I tried a tighter crop on the first but taking away from the photo abit with the light on top. I tried a different crop on the second. No additional room at top unfortunately.

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the first is nice but definitely lacking on the cropped off hands.

nice framing on the second, good DOF. Definitely gives me the feeling i was there.

I like the first, I think if the hands were there we would be too far away and it would lose something. Lessor of two evils was cropping off the hands IMHO.