I like the first updated picture better, the second one feels the background and middle-ground are saturated out while the foreground has color. The very dark and the grey blueish shadow feels awkward to my eyes. I think the update is pretty awesome, the frame you had before does not feel like its a key frame, or an important frame, it feels almost like a transitioning frame where the camera is moving to the next important scene. This scene however it feels just like the big reveal, I can just imagine in my head where the adventurer sees some weird lighting in the wood and decides to investigate, maybe trip and falls down a hill because he hears uneasy rustling in the trees and when he recovers and refocus BAM! you see this.
