Nicolas,
You mean that it now looks like an Ikea poster, because I edited it or even before that?
In any case, I like it! Consider this, if Ikea didn't understand esthetics, they'd be out of business. Their job is to sell home happiness! So, if this picture brings happiness, that's great and exactly why the Swedes like the bright colors in the first place!
Asher
I mean the cropped version.
Yes, of course Ikea understand the esthetics, in the sense that they know what will sell. But their job is not to sell home hapiness, their job is to make money the more cleverly possible, hence, not only they produce to good price, but they let us know beleive that their clients are intelligent (I have been a long term Ikea customer!).
They produce posters (as a side product) that will not last long, buyers will be able to change them as soon as they will see a new one in the shelves, a normal consumerist attitude nowadays, that make undustrials rich, but not to the benefit of photography… soon if not already, Ikea will sell photos gone thru a painting filter process, badly printed on canvas… Ugly! I would prefer that people buy real paintings (wether they are originals or copies) or real photographs, to do this (buying photographs) they are plenty affordable pieces of art that you can buy in photographers galleries, but that needs a certain amount of time and to be oneself sure of one's choice instead of being guided by Mr. Ikea…
Their creativity is killing creativity because of their hegemony, they are leveling by the bottom, this is their business model. Not mine. Mass production is the evil of creativity and inventivity. This is what I call the Ikea paradox! (or the Ford paradox if we wish a more historical approach!)
Nigel's image was not so badly balanced! with your crop you deleted the tables of foreground, which are important to me (the viewer). And some of the sky.
So, in a certain manner, your proposal is well balanced. But a part of the image is lacking…
Crop only the sky and you're out of a balanced image. If you want all the necessary subjects of an image, you're then obliged to go back to the original frame…
The original Nigel image, as it was framed (or cropped?) was less trendy, making less people wowing, but who's looking for an general and overall kudos? In fact it would scare me…