Autumn silhouettes on a mobile telephone

As autumn descends and winter draws ever nearer, the skies and the land offer wonderful photograph opportunities. Deciduous trees have become silhouettes of their summer selves, and the Sun creates wonderful colours as it rises and sets. As always, I had my mobile telephone with me when I went walking with the dog yesterday and I captured this image using the 'phone.

I used the limited editing tools on my telephone to make the sky less bright. This has brought out the different colours more clearly but has not lost the feeling of an autumn sky at sunset. I quite like the silhouette of the dog alongside the trees and bushes behind, but if I had a wider range of editing tools I would have experimented with the overall exposure of the shot to try to bring out more of the dog's colouring. 

In the next picture, taken on the same walk, I used the mobile editing tools to bring out more of the colour.

This has worked well for the colouring of the fur, although the sky has now lost some of the impact of the setting sun. 

I had not intended to set the bush behind the dog so symmetrically. Symmetry does not always work well in photographs as it can make the picture look too perfect as though it has been staged (which of course many photos are). However on this occasion I think it adds quite a nice frame to the dog's head. The lesson here is that framing something can work well but perhaps the less it is planned, the more natural it looks and the less it detracts from the subject of the photograph.