Another shot done recently and again on Canon with TS-E.
I figured the pervious had to have some flooring motivation. As for this one, I think you have a strong base but I can see a number of things that would make the shot more impactful. I hope this doesn't offend you, I spent about 10 minutes in Photoshop to push the image towards something that I feel is more compelling.
Firstly, you have a lot going on around the edges of the frame. The addition of the column faces don't really tell us anything new about the room and they pull your eye to the edge, away from the more interesting parts of the composition. Always work to drive the viewers eye towards what you're really selling. So, I cropped in a bit. Also, that table and chair in the foreground are barely peeking in, not adding anything, just remove them. Next, the overall WB is cool and less inviting. I warmed the whole shot up. This also makes the fireplace area TOO warm, so I desaturated yellow there locally. Then I found the shadows across the ceiling really distracting. Anytime my strobe is hitting the ceiling (and throwing shadows) we try to flag that off. Sometimes you really can't, though. I always do one exposure with the strobe off. This gives me something to composite in and clean up bad strobe leaks or shadows. I almost always use this extra image in my retouching and it always makes the overall shot more polished. Notice that we also see shadows from your lighting across the fireplace plinth, in the back right corner and the foreground columns. These make the shot visually noisy. Your lighting should never be evident (unless you REALLY mean for it to be). With the grouping on the right, I'd like that to feel a little more spacious, inviting. You could do this by pulling the foreground chair towards camera just a little and the back one to the left slightly so you feel the space between it and the table. Additionally, I went in and did selective burning and dodging to help better move the eye around and add depth. Then I noticed that there is another room beyond the fireplace. That's a great opportunity to relay the depth and volume of the overall space within a more intimate shot. It's dark, though, so your story is losing value. We would have just thrown a ceiling bounce back there to open it up, but I've done it in Photoshop pretty effectively. Lastly, in styling, I find the menu stand on the left really distracting. Maybe just a place setting (or anything low or flat) would have been better. Equally, the menu stand, table tent and salt/pepper shakers just seem to clutter up the right side.
I hope you don't mind me totally dissecting this image, but I felt like it was a pretty great learning opportunity and I hope that that is more valuable than me just coming here and saying "Nice shot."
Best,
CB
