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Just a found abstract with some fisherman nets and a nice sky...

 

Your feedback on composition and possible crop are most welcome:

that's the full-frame image and I have mixed feelings on how to

process it.

I love the way you have created a landscape out of the fishing nets, great colours and very nicely composed. I would leave it just as it is.

Superb composition,beautiful color contrast and perfect exposure,make this an unique abstract.

The black frame is much bold and heavy and i'd prefer a diagonal composition, but these are details! I love this picture, its colors and its landscape effect logic. Even clouds are well seen!

First, I like the title.

 

I think the compositional idea is very good here, and the execution is reasonably successful. I feel however that, through slight change of camera position, perhaps you could have created more satisfying interactions between the clouds and the 'horizon' of the nets. Regards.

How about a square? That rising cloud seems to be working with the rusted chain(pity its not clearer, getting lost in the orange a little).

Mmm, a square crop ? I thought so, but I am less convinced looking at the result. Strange, hey ?

I prefer the horizontal, the bulk of the nets feels more like it's spreading outward.

Very interesting study of colors and forms. I slightly prefer the crop of Stephen, but in any case a good shot...

Jiri

Nain, A.K., Filo, thanks. I was indeed playing on the role of the nets as a landscape in themselves, getting the illusion strenghtened by the clouds.

 

Leigh, what else can I say apart that you are right and I should have been a bit more on one of the sides? The central cloud has great potential in giving some prospective depth to the shot and is a bit "wasted" where it was.

 

Stephen, thanks for your crop. I leave it to you, Lionel, Aaron and Jiri to work out whether is better than the original or not. For sure has the advantage of giving more relevance to the cloud which, as I just mentioned, felt a bit "wasted" where it was.

 

Richard, thanks a lot for taking the time to play around with this. Your crop might be a good solution against the farther side of the shot where, after all, not so much is happening. My PS skills (or PC overdose in my Ph.D. years, rather) do not go so far as yours, and I like the way you've given back some role to the chain through the contrast with the nets. The saturated nets play a good role as well but the sky seems to overdo it a bit. It is interesting to note how yours and Stephen's interpretation diverged. You enhanced in an eye-pleasing way the feast of colours presented by the nets, whereas he enhanced their weathered feeling... you are pulling me in two opposite directions now.

Salvatore, I prefer the original you posted, the others are super-sharpened, one thing that I hate a lot.

 

Congratulations.

Javi

Richard, Javier, thanks for keeping this thread lively.

 

I guess the "sharpening" is due to the enhanced contrast between the yellow and red threads in the net... optical effect of sorts.