This is an old bus that's been turned into a highly decorated snack stand in Disney's Animal Kingdom. This was one of the pictures that really made me wish for a better camera than I was carrying. The color rendition surpassed simply 'boring' and moved into the 'horrendous' range of emotions. It wasn't so much that there was a color shift, but simply that the dynamic range of the camera was so small that the whole picture was a washed-out blah. (Dynamic range is the difference between the dimmest black and the brightest white a camera can capture in any given image.) I massaged what I had in photoshop, and was able to breath a little bit of life into it. (Mind you, me massaging a photo a lot in photoshop generally means piddling around for 20 minutes with levels and saturation. No layers were harmed in the making of this picture.)
If I had been shooting the Rebel, I probably would have gotten a similarly framed but wider angle shot, which would have exaggerated the nose of the bus more, and given a better sense of interaction and contact. As it stands, I think there's too much perceived distance between the viewer and the bus. It's a picture of a bus, rather than a bus that's a picture.

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