Visser herstelt netten bij dageraad

Editorial documentary photograph of a weathered fisherman mending and knotting nets on a quiet harbour at blue hour. Shot from a few meters away along the quayside with a 50mm lens at f/2.8, the photographer standing at the edge of the dock as if waiting, the man absorbed in his work and unaware. Eye-level camera position, coiled ropes and a rusted mooring bollard in the soft-focus foreground partly framing the scene. Cool ambient blue-hour light after sunset, the harbour water flat and steel-grey, a single distant dock lamp casting a faint warm glimmer on the wet nets, the fisherman's hands lit by soft dusk light. Caught mid-motion pulling a knot tight, the net threads slightly blurred, weathered hands in focus, nobody looking at the camera. Shot on Cinestill 800T, visible film grain, gentle halation on the lamp, cool desaturated tones, shadows deep and slightly underexposed. Off-center composition with the man on the right third, negative space over the calm water. 3:2.