Help deciding between a couple of sets.....

Infrabasse wrote:

It's 1 and 4 for me

1 for the same reasons as stated, the landscape takes you away from the main subject and doesn't add anything.

4 as I found the smooth wave really cool and the colors and just amazing! I wish the sun was visible though. Tough call.

Cropped 3 is very powerful but there's something special with the colors in #4 I wouldn't want to not show it.

Did you use an ND filter on that one and not on the previous one? or is the 1/10 vs 7/10 simply due to the sun being hidden behind the clouds?