Did not change the color, liked it from the camera. Increased brightness & contrast slightly. Cloned out couple of black things in water. Lighten shadows a bit with curves tool. USM,frame & re-size.
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Nice image, really get the sence of tranquility and warmth here. Exposure is nice, good detail all around including the piece of land sticking out, nice work there. Tonality is good and I like the use of the palms here nice effect they give overall scale to the image. The only thing is the compostion the image as a whole is to centered ( top to bottom ) the sun & it's ray come right down the middle of the image and we see just a bit too much water in the foreground, a little cropping here would have be justifyed. With that being said the way you captured the image clearly seems to work here. This is a wonderful image all the way around, nice work !!!. I would have scored it much higher.
Right then, joke's on me as I now have to plough through 564 images and bump them all (yes, all of them) up. There'll be a third run through for fine tuning. It's day two now and I'm running late, sorry.
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