Which one looks best? (Beware 56K)

[imperialism2024]

I apologize for not resizing to 750 wide, but I'm currently at school and away from PS...

I took this shot a few months ago and last night decided to work with it a little.

First, the original with boosted saturation:
[pic]http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/6066/containers2wy.jpg[/pic]

Then last night I dropped the brightness and boosted the contrast:
[pic]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6638/containers23ey.jpg[/pic]

Then I got creative with the history brush tool after not being able to decide on something to spot-color:
[pic]http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9671/containers31qp.jpg[/pic]

I'm trying to decide if I overdid the last variation.

[Mrs Fish]

First one looks best

[anonymous-user]

Agreed. But the horizon in the distance looks a bit too blue to me. An artifact of upping the saturation?

[joust]

First one looks too false, but not false enough if you see what I mean.

Either tone down the saturation tweak, or go mad

[barreti]

I like the last one best. I may be way off since I am colour blind, BUT...
Because of that I am more interested in shapes, angles and shadow. The last one has straight lines on all planes and the mottled effect of shading blends it all together. Hopefully I'm not talking crap again !

[thunderstruck]

Might be good if you could do a spot colour keeping all the orange bits (crates and top of crane)

[te51cle]

Prefer the first one but could I suggest making the containers more dominant by cropping out the skyline - down to the top edge of the roofline of the white building in the middle distance for example.

[Awol]

First one, but with the white pillar cropped out on the right