something about this picture...

[dazie]

I took this picture a few years ago when we were in Hawaii.  It's north shore Oahu, and I swear it's real.

But something about it doesn't LOOK real.  What is it??!

http://i3.tinypic.com/400xn6b.jpg

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[Jessie]

The ocean looks like mouthwash.

[Beefy]

I'm not in it porking YOUR MOM

[eo000]

no photoshop at work, but pretend it looks good.

[dazie]

I'm not in it porking YOUR MOM

eew.  It's funnier when it's about eo's mom.

[Beefy]

[meredith]

[DownSouth]

Looks normal to me.

[dazie]

Yeah- the water is a little Scope-y.

It just looks fake to me.  Like it's glass instead of water or something. 

[Gamplayerx]

The only thing I notice is the incongruity between the lightness of the water and sand versus the dark, ominous clouds.

[VikingJuice]

I took this picture a few years ago when we were in Hawaii.  It's north shore Oahu, and I swear it's real.

But something about it doesn't LOOK real.  What is it??!

http://i3.tinypic.com/400xn6b.jpg

(linked for bigness)

Is this a trick question because I'm pretty sure I've seen that exact picture before?

[dazie]

I may have posted it before.

[BigDun]

I think what you may be subconsciously seeing is the chroma noise aberration (the randomly colored pixels) that are in the clouds near the cloud/sea dividing line. This is a common issue with digital cameras, especially if they are set to automatically adjust the CCD sensitivity to a high ISO for low light conditions.

Um... I realize that won't make much sense to someone who isn't a camera geek, so go check out this low end camera review on DPReview.com. Scroll down to the section titled "Noise": http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/samsungnv10/page3.asp

[Alice]

For me, it just looks weird because there's no sky... like normally inbetween the clouds and the sea, you see sky.  Here, the clouds just meet the water.

[ReBurn]

I like to go to the beach when storms roll in. Incidentally, I've never seen sky between storm clouds and the water when the storm comes in from sea.

[ursus]

That was taken at Pipeline at about midday. The Eddie Aiku had taken place about a week before, which means that the ocean had kicked up to waves about 20 feet high (measured from the back, not the front). So, you are looking north(ish) and the next land you would see would be the Aleutian Islands.

I think it's the grey scale nature of the clouds when seen against the colors of sky (at the top), ocean and sand.

BTW, the storm came out of the south, and we had rain for about 40 minutes as we drove north out of Honolulu...

[VikingJuice]

That was taken at Pipeline at about midday. The Eddie Aiku had taken place about a week before, which means that the ocean had kicked up to waves about 20 feet high (measured from the back, not the front). So, you are looking north(ish) and the next land you would see would be the Aleutian Islands.

I think it's the grey scale nature of the clouds when seen against the colors of sky (at the top), ocean and sand.

BTW, the storm came out of the south, and we had rain for about 40 minutes as we drove north out of Honolulu...

What is the Eddie Aiku?  I've never heard of that before.

[dazie]

Eddie would go.  I recommend reading all of that.

Big Wave Invitational

[manosax]

Sometimes there are those place that have been used in postcard type of pictures that when you take a photograph of them they don't look real.  Crater Lake in Southern Oregon is another one of those places...

[Infobahn]

Hold the camera level?