Playing with focal ranges

I am trying to work out the ranges of this camera and lens/s. I took these two shots below at different apertures on the same cluster of berries and am conflicted what shot makes the bigger impact?

I am looking for some help if anyone has an opinion ... hey maybe we can make this a poll ? Not that we are not all sick and tired of hearing about voting by now. I promise I will not have Bill Clinton call you about voting for my pictures :)

With the F stop set to f/9 I managed to drop out the foreground and the far off back round while making the eye to train on the center of the shot and the middle of the focal range. Does this make sense?

f/9

1/80 sec.

ISO-400

WB-sun

300mm

Freehand

UV filter

Notice by dialing down the aperture to the minimum I have available for this zoom range (300mm) f/5.6 that the foreground snaps into focus while dropping the back round out.


f/5.6



1/80 sec.


ISO-400


WB-sun


300mm


Freehand


UV filter