... that you'd use such a "familiar face" in this challenge, albeit in an unusual setting.
Shot with Exposure Compensation at -1 eV.
Cropped and straightened a bit (I had to stand in the middle of a busy street to get this).
One RGB curve applied to the moon with a quickie masking job; and RGB and a Blue Curve applied to the rest. Masked-off and applied a third curve to bring out the yellow in the High Voltage sign.
I "let go" the little bit of blue haloing around the moon ... doesn't bother me too much, and maybe it will garner me some DQ requests : )
Resized, two applications of USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH=5. JPEG=9/10.
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I take it the face is NOT the man in the moon, but the 3 circles? If so, it's not really "facing off" for me. The image usffers from oversharpening on the moon, I think. The haloing is not good here. But it's an appealing image regardless.
Dang it -- I didn't even see "that" face until looking at the thumbnail for the fourth time tonight. Thanks!
The sharpening arounf the moon, gives the impression that it has been gat out from another Photograph. This could be have been avoided withn less sharpening.
If spot editing were alowed you could clone out this halo
I more or less left the ugly effect in place to see if it would garner a DQ request (took a few hours, maybe!) and if the validation would have a significant effect on the score (not that much -- that's good!).
It would have been possible to get rid of the holoing, but as usual I didn't really have time to do a good job of it, so I tried to leave it looking deliberate.
This had to be a hand-held shot at long zoom since to achieve the composition I had to be between two lanes of a major boulevard during rush hour -- I figure I must have had 15-30 seconds easy : )
Maybe I'll post a picture of the "set-up" for this shot ...
The sharpening arounf the moon, gives the impression that it has been gat out from another Photograph. This could be have been avoided withn less sharpening.
If spot editing were alowed you could clone out this halo
I take it the face is NOT the man in the moon, but the 3 circles? If so, it's not really "facing off" for me. The image usffers from oversharpening on the moon, I think. The haloing is not good here. But it's an appealing image regardless.
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