What's Real?

You already have a picture, let me paint it for you...

     Within a psychiatric hospital on Long Island, New York contained the worse kind of crazies you could think of. Worse than any of the ones you see in the scariest of horror films. On a dark and stormy night there was a riot, and the patients brutally murdered every single employee and took the opportunity to escape, and with complications from the storm, no one realized until almost a week later. After police collected all the escaped patients, just one was unaccounted for. They called him the shape, he never talked, never showed emotion, all he did was kill anyone he wanted, ever since he was a child. His eyes were...lifeless eyes, black eyes, they were the eyes...of a psychopath. After the capture of the patients, the old hospital was abandoned.  Some say the Shape is still there, quietly waiting in his room to see if anyone had the curiosity to come inside his home. This was the last know picture taken of the hospital, taken in 1963.

    In reality I just took the picture today, but did the photo for a second make you believe that story was true? The ambiance, the black and white, the question as to why would a photographer photograph a hospital with trees blocking the view? The things that the program Lightroom can do is incredible, depending on how well it's used. 

This here is the original photo. Colorful, kind of and overblown sky, and the hospital itself is kind of faded with no real contrast. The photo was also taken during broad daylight, not overcast. But don't the black and white, with enhanced contrast and dimmed highlights really make a difference? I do. It gives you a whole different perception of the setting. And when you hear that made up story and then see the altered photo, if makes the story more believable for some reason. Maybe it's just an effect images have on the human eye.