Hi Folks,

I'm thinking this will be OK to post these two pictures since they are of the same thing, but different colors. I hope so, since I am not trying to get away with anything or stretch the rule of this forum. If I did, I certainly apologize and will probably have to repost?

Here are two pictures of the same shot, but it was a light show choreographed to music so the lights are of different colors.

Which one do you think is the best or more pleasing to the eye or better photographically, and why, because the only major difference is in the colors? What could have been done differently to improve?

I used a Nikon D800, 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, originally shot using RAW format, full manual, ISO 1600, f/4, Spot metering, no flash, at 1/60 sec. It was also hand held, but know it would have and should have been taken using a tripod. Post Processing was done using LR 5.2 on a Mac. The images were drastically reduced in size for UHH using Photoshop. Thank you.

Tom

Remember those dead water lilies I posted last week with the best sunset I'd ever seen? Here they are again, same location, in different light. We had fog yesterday, so out I went, this time with shoes, and got there before construction crews to see if anything might happen when the sun came up and the fog began to break. This is one of many interesting though not spectacular shots I got. C & C + suggestions and edits will be helpful. If you can figure out how to level it please do. I have moved the line everywhere and even manipulated the thing in Lens Corrections but am not satisfied.

For those who like backstory, this is a manmade reservoir that was created for flood control in the 60s and took in farms, communities, and Indian mounds. Some of these little islands are old mounds & pour out archaic-period relics from their banks. They may look mundane but they are spirit-places.