S&E: 5 (Edit)

I'm feeling very far behind on everything this week.  Eh, I'll catch up some time, right?  Here is this week's edit:

The original

With Edits

With edits: standard alterations in Lightroom to balance out the light and color; opened in PS, did the high pass filter, a contrast and color balance layer, and ran a quick action that does a burn around the edges.   I like a burn around the edges.   Oh, and there is a sepia filter in there somewhere just to warm things up a bit.

For this one, I kept looking at the heart shape itself, and making that the primary focus.  I was thinking though about the lines of the fingers, and feeling uncertain if the lines brought the focus back to the heart, or away from it?  And then I started thinking that maybe I should have cropped the image on the bottom...I'm always realizing an edit I should have made right before I post it!  Still not quite right, but here it is:

With edits and crop