Shim, I see what you mean, you crop that distracting bokeh away or maybe even a tigther crop will work.

Think I will go for the first one with a warm filter if I will do something with it, just my personal taste.

Simply black & white filter layer in photoshop, sorry that it ain't anything special

Everyone is diffrend so don't worry about it, your comments are very appreciated so I did what you said Shim with the last photo since you cropped away the dark corners anyway.

Was this what you mean?
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1414xx.jpg[/IMG]

It becomes a completely differend photo like this.

Okay never seen they do that before

Hopefully the misson went well for Ken.

You had very nice weather I see, not very British luckly.

Very brave to post such personal photos.

Of the first photo, I liked to original better of the last one to be honest.
The crop was a little bit to tight but the lost of colour was okay to me though.

The second one is very nice and you nailed it with the edited version.

The boots work well so, maybe taken just a little bit of the leftside might help with the compisition.

The last photo is great and yes they don't need to be sharp so don't worry.

That looks very good indeed, on what focal length was this one made?

Thank you Shim
What do you think about the third one?

I was thinking about a crop but don't think it's needed with the vignette?

Thank you for your comments, the funny thing is that the sharpening of the two is preciesly the same btw

The first one has very mild adjustments in Lightroom to get the exposure perfect then it went into Photoshop and got some sharpening a softlight layer and curves with linear contrast.

The second one I've pulled the recovery slider to full in lightroom, also contrast, clarity & vibrance went to almost full, blacks & fill lights halfway and saturation went down to compisate for the high vibrance.
Then in photoshop did the same sharpening & cruve, a heavier softlight layer and a warm photo filter.

The things I did in lightroom there with the last one I used with another photo before and it came out pretty good so wanted to try it out on other photos but wasn't sure it worked one this one.

Alright a lieveheersbeestje for you made on a vacation to Denmark.
Made two version with differend post procession and I like to know which one you prefer. This isn't a test so don't be scared to answer.
If you wanna go yourself say so and will upload a RAW file for you.

#1. PP with the things I normally do, nothing really special.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1414n.jpg[/IMG]
#2. Went a bit more creative.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1414.jpg[/IMG]
#3. Made this one after some comments, almost the same as photo one. It has a bit more vibrance, some vignette and a warm filter.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/_IGP1414x.jpg[/IMG]

K10D - DA*50-135
ISO 200 - 135mm - focus distance 1m - f/2.8 - 1/125 sec

-edit: saved the creative photo over the normall photo, just a sec
-edit2: it seems I did it alright but you hardly see a difference on the web...
Still look closely and you see a diffrence
-edit3: added 3th photo