first picture post comments much appreciated

[binaryknight]

firstly my nephew taken outside on a decent day
original just resized imported via ps using as shot setting and setting all auto settings such as exp to 0

same picture but edited,toyed with import settings, cropped,border added, swing cloned out, background blurred more (not sure if i like this or not done to remove distraction but where the sky meets the horizon looks messy) and finally auto levels / contrast

random walk about, original from camera but resized, as shot, all other auto settings at 0

same picture but given the hdr treatment:

and finally my current wallpaper picture as previous but cropped and colours tweaked a touch in ps

any comments welcome, i realise that there is a nasty flare in that last pic any ideas on how to remove / prevent welcome, also aware of the fringing around the trees should have removed this at import stage

thanks for looking

 

[Zheka]

N2 is very good, well done