Photo decision for double page spread

This is an edit for when I previously considered this image for my double page spread. I am not too keen on this edit as it looks a bit bleak and the purple grass doesn't work too well as it has bits of blue in it. I quite like the cold, gloomy mood it creates which reflects the band members expression. I didn't think this image would suit my double page spread however so I decided not to use it.

This is the first edited version of the image for my double page spread. I did like the way I had edited this image because it looked quite clean and clear but this didn't really follow and create the mood I wanted. At the time that I edited this image I thought it was fine and put it in to my double page spread and started to piece it all together as you will see with my layout experiments above but when it was nearly all completed I thought that the double page spread was lacking something, I realised the image was too plain and boring, this meant that it didn't follow the grungy, punk rock look I was trying to create in my magazine.

This is the edited image that I chose for the double page spread because after trying the above, I felt that the double page spreading was lacking a bit of colour it was a bit boring and my solution was to change the colour of the stone structure they were sitting on and to darken the trees using the burn tool, this meant there was a higher contrast between the brighter band members on the purple stone structure and the background. The burned trees added to the dark bleak mood that comes across in this image.

 This photo that I selected did suit the look and layout I wanted to create; it was easy to crop to fit in to the layout as it wasn't too rectangular. I chose this photo because I liked the setting, the rural, grungy look and the fact the band members are on  higher ground, this relates well to the article in the double page spread which is about them reaching the top of the music business. It symbolises their success and none of the other images were able to do this in the same way. It represents their background and where they grew up in the outskirts of Bristol. The only difficulty with this image was how I was going to edit the image to make it look unique.