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Jon (that's Andrew to you Gary), I like the second one. The foreground rope is a focus point and the lighting is sublime. The first one doesn't do anything for me as my eyes have nowhere to go.

Thanks Andrew (or should I call you Jon...). I really like #2 myself.

I was looking to highlight the repetition of the windows in the first, with the blur to abstract it a little. I think you are right though and it leaves the viewer a tad lost. The extra background doesn't help either, I just tried a quick crop to square it up but wasn't much of a fan of that either.

Cheers.

I quite like #2 for the reasons Andrew mentioned. I think the first could work, but that yellow pole needs to go and you need a subject, like a person or similiar, to be OOF when the eyes get down there.

You know I think you might be right there. A person down the back would help with the negative space. I also think it needs less 'nothing' space on the left, and probably to be shot pointing down a bit more to follow the line of the windows more.

Perhaps I need to spend a morning riding ferries around one weekend and try again!

Thanks for the comments guys, good food for thought.

The first is a great concept shot...nail it next time!

I do like the 2nd, and Andrew has beaten me to the punch.

Great stuff

I also prefer the second one to the first one.