This picture was taken at sunset on a dull, rainy night at Jolly Beach, Antigua, January 23, 2013.
Reality
By first lightening the photo, and then enhancing the reds and blues, and decreasing the greens, I ended up with a much more stunning sunset than I saw in reality.
On fire
Which do you prefer?
This post is part of K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge! This week’s theme is beaches. Click the link and learn what to do to join in! https://diaryofaninternetnobody.com/2016/05/02/klee-and-dales-cosmic-photo-challenge-7/
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May 6, 2016 at 3:00 pm
i tend to gravitate as a general rule towards expressions that are atypical – the mundane shown as not mundane, the non-mundane shown as mundane. so i would go with the first one…the second being typical of what we think when we think tropical beach.
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May 6, 2016 at 3:09 pm
Your preference certainly is the more thought-provoking. Funny you should say that though – I was there for a week and didn’t get a single decent sunset. I stayed on the west coast of the island just for that… 😛
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May 4, 2016 at 6:43 pm
Definitely the second. Evoking a tropical sunset. 🙂
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May 6, 2016 at 2:52 pm
😀 Thanks, Debby!
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May 7, 2016 at 11:40 am
🙂
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May 3, 2016 at 5:46 pm
depends on my mood: tonight the second one :-). Well done!
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May 6, 2016 at 2:56 pm
I’m with you! It also depends on the current temperature. 😛 😉
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May 6, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Indeed 🙂
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May 3, 2016 at 4:59 pm
I prefer the original because I am in to rain and fog. 🙂
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May 6, 2016 at 2:56 pm
Ah, well it would have been a perfect evening for you. 🙂
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May 3, 2016 at 2:20 am
The filtered photo is beautiful but I prefer the original simply because it is the original. If I had been standing there I would have seen the first one – and that’s what I want from my pictures : what I would see. When I went to B-school, they taught us how to make presentations look more attractive than what they really were. Especially graphs and charts. It is possible to, for instance, change the apparent growth slope of an investment simply by changing the intervals on the axes – without lying or cheating or misrepresentation – it just looked better. I have developed an aversion to representing reality in any manner other than what it really is.
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May 3, 2016 at 12:29 am
Ha! That’s awesome!
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May 3, 2016 at 12:04 am
I like the edited one better, for sure 😀 . The lack of color in the original makes it a little… drab, haha.
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May 2, 2016 at 6:09 pm
I hate them both, cause palm trees, lol! But the real one looks cooler and like I don’t need sunscreen, so that one is a bit better 😉
Playing with photos is fun stuff!
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May 2, 2016 at 7:42 pm
It is! You should give the challenge a try! Thanks for voicing your opinion, Joey. Yeah, the enhanced one does look a bit warm, doesn’t it? 😉
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May 2, 2016 at 3:34 pm
I love the colours of the filtered one better!
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May 2, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Thank you, Judy. 🙂
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May 2, 2016 at 2:56 pm
I prefer the first knowing that’s the real one. The filtered is imagination 🙂
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May 2, 2016 at 3:26 pm
Indeed it is. 🙂 Thanks for your comment, Parul. 😀
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May 2, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Oh very nice, I prefer the filtered version, the contrast against the reds is sharper and I love the silhouettes.
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May 2, 2016 at 2:48 pm
Thank you, Dale. 🙂 Glad you like what I did with it.
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May 2, 2016 at 3:06 pm
Thank you for contributing.
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May 2, 2016 at 3:27 pm
You’re welcome. It was fun! 😀
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