>>4453482
Effortpostin
>technical
the focus is on the sign, leaving the bench and trees falling unpleasingly out of focus
would recommend stopping down and focusing farther so that everything is equally in focus or do the opposite and lean into selective dof
as is it just looks poorly focused
room to grow as far as sharpening/nr settings go, and the highlights are a bit overexposed
>creative
it almost looks like two separate scenes that were blended together
the path on the right leads right into the edge of the frame which makes it feel as if stuff is missing
the weightiness of the pole on the left side doesn't feel balanced with the bench + surrounding empty area
the bottom 3rd of the frame is relatively boring, if it doesn't add to the photo, take it out
provided some examples of crops that i think look a bit better
try taking bunch of shots at all kinds of different angles and play around with various crops to see what feels best