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Yesterday i found this image on my harddisk and played a bit with photoshop, (dodging and burning), to darken the parts (mainly upper right side), that were distracting the view and i was astonished, how much stronger the image looks, with "less" elements on it.
I really enjoyed the Flickr-comments about this work - and i am sure, that all readers know this feeling well from their own images: We see the photo, and we like it - but... Something is wrong and prevents the "wow effect". Too much saturation? Too much contrast (or not enough)? The wrong crop? The wrong format (4:3, 16:9, 20:9)?
Sometimes it just needs one simple action, and the image looks much better. But it is not so easy to find out, what it is, that the image is missing. Not in all cases can others help us, because they don't know our personal vision.
So i recommend every photographer a folder "unsolved cases" on his harddisk, it can be really fun to solve such "open problems", sometimes it needs just a bit time to find the solution.

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I already showed this shot in my german blog, but i think, it could be also interesting for my international friends. It is hopefully a good example of "less is more" but i have to admit, that the b&w transition was really important for the image effect here.