They both need a variety in light distribution.
In the first, the contrast and such is fine, but to balance all of that orange, it feels as like it needs a few subtle hues of
magenta, pink, or purple in there to help carve it out better. So it'll look more dimensional as a gradient.
In the second, it either needs to be darkened with more contrast in emphasis on the 'stock' or that marine shit going on in the background. So that focus would be emitting more light than the other instead of them both being the same, hence the focal. Stock there needs sharpening, and use a soft brush to darken the edges of those circles in the background so the shades play off one another. Hell, running it through curves if you add another light source may not be such a bad idea. Right now, it just feels flat. Also, for this one..for some reason, it looks like it might look interesting if it had streaks of different levels of lighting going through it, to create more of a flow. So instead of it just being flat all around with color distribution, you'd see spikes of different things...that'd create more of an 'effect' than just simply light.
Also, both have an annoying graniness to them.
If you can nix it, that'd be great. Or transform it into a 'glass shower' or something.
