The lonely house

Hi everybody,

Two pictures for today about this house made of stone by a sunny afternoon. Any comments (good and bad ones) are welcome.

Made with 7D and Sigma AF 10-20mm F/4-5.6 DC. RAWs processed with DxO 6.1.2.

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Few - I like both.

But the first one you've got so much space - you could ideally put some text there something like a holiday ad - in this respect the crop looks better - "better use of space".
But then you no longer clearly see what sort of a lonely house it is...

But it looks lovely

Normally, I would prefer the landscape format, and that would be the end to it.

However, we have a defect in #1 because the sun is low and to the left, which causes the sky detail to fade away to the left. That side of the image could be burned in to correct that.

#2 does not have the problem - the sky is much nicer and more uniform across the image.

Either way the little house is charming, and it's a good capture.

pictures are good, but composition would be better if you framed them a bit different - to leave more room on the right, so you can accentuate the "lonely" attribute of the house.

in #1, the use of rule of thirds would have made the picture more compelling.
in #2, you could have zoomed out a bit more, for the same reasons as above.

In both, you could have pushed the saturation higher.

Thanks to all.

In fact, on the right side, there's a road. I couldn't frame a much different way.

About saturation, on my calibrated screen, it seems OK to me, but this is personnal taste.

Second for me, and I find the colors very pleasing.