Red Boat & Ropes - C&C please

[Jon_Are]

Looking for input on composition, lighting, whatever.
Thanks for looking,
Jon

 

[icassell]

I love the colors and the composition is good! I tried cropping out the top of the pic (removing the boat) and that looks cool too!

 

[Jon_Are]

Thanks, icassell.

I'd be interested in seeing your crop if you wouldn't mind posting it.

Jon

 

[icassell]

Thanks, icassell.

I'd be interested in seeing your crop if you wouldn't mind posting it.

Jon

Will have to do it when I get home (no PS here at work ...)

I just held a piece of paper over the image on my monitor

 

[icassell]

LOL -- I did it on Picassa ... not perfect, but you get the idea ...

 

[Jon_Are]

Thanks, but I definitely prefer the boat (and houses and sky) included. :mrgreen:

Jon

 

[icassell]

Thanks, but I definitely prefer the boat (and houses and sky) included. :mrgreen:

Jon

that's cool!

 

[LaFoto]

I like the "canvas background" aspect of those houses, they are in a slight haze and therefore look a little unreal to me, which is interesting. The colours of the ropes are so much strong in comparison.
I prefer the composition of the original photo, the quay wall cuts a nice diagonal line through the photo, the heaps of rope have a nice element of repetion and something like a vanishing point, too, in so far as they get smaller and smaller the further they are away.

If I were to consider a crop at all, I'd crop below the numbers 00069 on the boat. The photo feels different then (no more person to be seen, and no "canvas background").

 

[Jeff Canes]

The background does look like a canvas or mural. Or is it HDR? Not sure how I fell about it. As for cropping I would cut off the bottom to make more of a 4x5 format

 

[Ben-71]

Nice picture.
IMO, there's too much at the top, which distracts
from the main composition.​

This is how I'd crop it –​

This way, there's a (mirror image of a) 'Z', which
creates homogenous composition and "connectivity".

 

[Jon_Are]

This is how I'd crop it –

Hmmm....I really like that, Ben.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Jon_Are]

Here's a cropped version similar to Ben's; which do y'all prefer?



Original:

 

[icassell]

I prefer the cropped version -- I think that's more like what I was aiming for (but missed) when I offered my crop. I think the houses at the top add a second subject and are distracting. All-in-all, I really like the image.

 

[KabeXTi]

I like the original the best. Nice picture, almost looks like it was taken on a movie set or something.

 

[Lyncca]

Great shot! I do like the crop that Jon did, of removing the houses, but leaving the boat.