...........but which one (if either) would you hang on the wall?

[Wavelength]

#1 is awesome; i have some hesitation for #2

[Shadowman]

Two different treatments and my wife would say the arty approach is the more appropriate. Kind advice very welcome

So John,

Which of the two did your wife choose and was this the one she considered arty?

[ajohnw]

Thanks for all of the comments and for cheering for the underdog.

Treavor, trust you to remind us of the real world. Food photography wasn't what I had in mind.

Dan/Manfred, I will play with the vignette. Don't think I applied much of one to the first image.

Ken, hair over the eyes is typical of the breed I'm afraid and the sight of those horns made for a philosophical approach to the shot.

Izzie, I've seen the way our Miniature Schnauzer reacts when we approach her with a hose pipe and scissors. Are you kidding??

John, not keen on the saturated version but a tad more contrast does improve the image see below.

I thought that too when I did it. On the other hand when you print you may find it helps. Not something I do but often people increase colouration to get round the reduction in dynamic range that prints suffer from. Colin might chime in on this aspect.

Other people often seem to use tone mapped style colouration which personally I hate. I usually see that when people are selling pictures at markets of one sort or another. I did happen on a gallery with shots from some "names" for sale in it and I would say that all had saturation increases or had been processed in some way that gives a similar effect.

John
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[IzzieK]

Ken...of course I am joking. Didn't you see my big smile ?

[John 2]

Thanks for all the additional comments.

John(Shadowman), my wife is a potter and sometime water Colourist. Which do you think she would prefer (allow). Pretty much a foregone conclusion.

John W, you may have a point. As a rule I don't print these days. (I've run out of room to store them.) but I do know that paper does not have the dynamic range of a digital image and I had forgotten that. We shall see.

[Stagecoach]

It's No 1 for me with your slight mod,but, nothing wrong with No 2.

Grahame

[Shadowman]

Thanks for all the additional comments.

John(Shadowman), my wife is a potter and sometime water Colourist. Which do you think she would prefer (allow). Pretty much a foregone conclusion.

John W, you may have a point. As a rule I don't print these days. (I've run out of room to store them.) but I do know that paper does not have the dynamic range of a digital image and I had forgotten that. We shall see.

A potter and a water colorist makes it more difficult to pick. As a water colorist I would think she'd prefer the first image and as a potter the second.

[John 2]

No she prefers the second. At one time, she had a slight difficulty in seeing photography as art but I note that as time goes on, that is becoming less the case. She has actually been more accepting of some of my more recent efforts in that context.