Abstract or over processed

ndwgolf said:
I'm not sure about this one. I'm thinking over processed but maybe can get away calling it abstract............what do you think?
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I like the colours and the banding 'effect' & leading.
But whether overprocessed.......what was your artistic intent?
 
Box Brownie said:
I like the colours and the banding 'effect' & leading.
But whether overprocessed.......what was your artistic intent?
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Initially I thought it would work as a leading line but it was leading to know where so that’s why I thought I could just make an abstract from it. But I’ve never done abstract photography before so pretty clueless really
 
I'd be tempted to try a little sideways motion blur to see if that looks abstract.
 
It might be abstract, but that's the subject matter rather than the processing.
 
Personally, I don't care too much about titles. I like it as an image, and I wasn't seeing or looking for leading lines, but symbolism - which I found. There's always a danger of reading too much into an image, finding things that never crossed the artist's conscious mind, but art should produce some response in the viewer, even if unintended by the artist.

So, call it what you will, and as Will(iam) said "a rose by any other name"...
 
It gets even more abstract if you take out the sky and clouds, you also take out what looks like dust specks on your sensor.
I usually try not to sharpen sky which helps to hide these things.

That aside, I rather like the image.
 
IMO, there is a "weight" and composition problem that keeps it from being successful. Because of the original intent, the composition focuses on the wash in the foreground... the idea being a leading line, but that doesn't really work, the line dies as it makes the turn and goes nowhere.

The other issue is the tonal weight of the start of the wash. The lower right, and the face of the bank/cut there, is much darker/heavier than the rest of the composition. Those two things combined causes me to "get stuck" in the lower/lower right portion of the image.

If it were mine, I would crop it up from the bottom to where the scalloped edge of the cut began at/near the lower right corner. Alternatively I might try some toning to shift the weight and flow/focus of the image. I would have done a couple quick examples, but you have "no" selected.
 
sk66 said:
IMO, there is a "weight" and composition problem that keeps it from being successful. Because of the original intent, the composition focuses on the wash in the foreground... the idea being a leading line, but that doesn't really work, the line dies as it makes the turn and goes nowhere.

The other issue is the tonal weight of the start of the wash. The lower right, and the face of the bank/cut there, is much darker/heavier than the rest of the composition. Those two things combined causes me to "get stuck" in the lower/lower right portion of the image.

If it were mine, I would crop it up from the bottom to where the scalloped edge of the cut began at/near the lower right corner. Alternatively I might try some toning to shift the weight and flow/focus of the image. I would have done a couple quick examples, but you have "no" selected.
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Thanks for the feedback mate
 
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