Originally posted by Na Horuk Cool suggestions. I think in that case I would go for the 1:1 crop and just ignore the stairs. That would really change the photo and simplify it a lot, but it would remove the tension. But I'm not sure a crop can really save it at this point, I would have to re-do the shot with a different angle, or the sun being off-centre (more to the left)
Your confusing two things. This is a good shot, that has potential to be tweaked in a range of ways to give very different images. I could just as easily have cropped only from the top, leaving a moody picture of the rock wall and bricks, for example.
I hope you go back to this location, but any other shot you take will be different, even if you used exactly the same set up. I've seen a lot of your comments on other threads and you have a lot of good ideas and suggestions so I'm really looking forward to seeing future shots from you.