Worked on the first one a bit more. I am having to do this with 3 seperate layers, otherwise my pc can't cope, so instead of altering the camera angle I have cropped the sky, which I had intended to do anyway. Added some smoke, tried to simulate dust kicked up by the horses, and dirtied my house texture up some.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."