Used a piece of reflective paper and shadow from the sun shining through the vertical blinds made like a sand-like pattern. Cloned out the stand the cube was on and did some other touch-up cloning and heal brush. Also adjusted levels and put an USM.
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I find the range of hyper-picky historico-pedantic comments rather hard to take, even as a disinterested dearder of someone else's comments. What the hell is the point of that? And it's made especially pointless when a bunch of supposedly 'punk' images dominate the ribbons in this challenge.
Well, I'm afraid there's no defense against the small-minded other than to go along one's way, without letting such things get under one's skin, but it can be hard: it seems there's almost a desperation to find some way, any way to dismiss an image from proper consideration in a challenge.
There are a couple of things I do like here, and a couple I think may prove to have been optimistic ideas. The brightness, almost the brashness of the image seems to me very fitting to the period we were asked to imitate - and of course the subject and your treatment of it is absolutely OK. Your shiny material - and the sand-like quality that you've noticed, causes problems though: precisely because it does look so much like sand, I suspect many people will have actually taken it for sand, and decided that you've over-exposed your background - despite the evidence of the reflection of the cube. Unravelling that, however small, visual puzzle is asking for more time from the punters than a first shoot through is going to get you, though.
Ah the infamous Rubik's cube. In as much as this was developed and created in the 70's, I think this really boomed in popularity in the 80s. The colors are sharp but the background leaves questions to be asked. The highlights are a bit too bright here which I think will be the pitfall for this image. Positioning of the cube is spot on with ROTs. Good luck.
There are a lot of Rubic's Cubes in this challenge, but unfortunately, although some may have played with it in the 80's, it was really created in 1975. Therefore, the cube was really a 1970's craze, and not an 80's craze.Rubik's Cube was developed in 1975 by Ernö Rubik, a Hungarian professor of mathematics
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