Sorry to be a bit brutal... I'm not suggesting for a moment that I would have done
better, or even different.
BUT:-
Missed opportunity?
No.1 clearly works, No.2 doesn't - image/focus quality?? and the microphone looking thing
over on the right needs the space denied it by i2. Which rules out further work like
cropping out the curtains, etc.
For years I have banned myself from shooting in portrait orientation. Unless it actually is
a portrait. However, I'm recently discovering that 'portrait' can work in the landscape.
This is a good example. A 'portrait' shot would have 'breathed' in the way that i1 fails to
do in my very humble, and unfairly critical view... time for a smiley...
Perhaps more importantly, the red in top of i2 would really have lifted i1.
This is critique we're offering here, right?
I hope you won't take my rather direct expression of opinion the wrong way.
TH