Photo geekery

[drwex]

I'm still working on figuring out how to edit my mediocre camera originals. I've had several helpful tips and I want to see what appeals to the viewing public. Herewith, a wholly unscientific experiment.

In all cases, click on the thumbnail to get the full image.
First the original photo:

Now two different ways of editing it.
Option 1: and Option 2:
Which do you like better?

In related news, my attempts to photograph the moving parts of the ENSMB fundraiser were an almost complete flop. I'm consistently failing to get the DSLR to behave like my old analog SLR. The motion is blurred in the wrong ways; the depth of focus is WAY too deep and what it seems to want to focus on is not necessarily the closest object but seemingly something random in the frame. *grump*