Abstract sunset

I recently played around with some photos I took on Phu Quoc Island. The sunset there is stunning, and you can really get some very nice pictures....Well..the usual, "romantic" and a bit kitschy photographs everybody knows.

I wanted to create a more dramatic, less photographic image out of that, and Photoshop offers some nice tools to reduce details and merge similar tonal levels, so after a while I got a colour-reduced picture with detailed outlines of the foreground and a dramatic, simlified background.

This is the original photograph:














This is obviously the cropped and modified version of the sunset