The photo on the top looks more contrast richer - If you look at the leaves on the left as well at the umbrella. The yellows look more popped up. Love the color range on the top.
Thank you for your input... This is why I'm doing this testing. I want to see if shooting in Adobe RGB, then converting to sRGB for posting on the Internet, is of any benefit to image quality. What you're seeing is one photo, shot using Adobe RGB in-camera, that was exported to JPG in two ways: The first photo, the one on top, was exported to JPG, saved and posted (no conversion). The photo at the bottom was first converted to sRGB when it was exported to JPG, then saved and posted.
As you point out, the color and contrast is *definitely* better in the top photo; that's the Adobe RGB color-space version (no conversion to sRGB) and it surprises me greatly to see how much better it looks on the web than the sRGB version of the same shot. I'm going to be looking into this more in the coming days because it confuses me that an Adobe RGB color-space photo looks better online than an sRGB version of the same photo.
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