This was soooooo hard to get the colors right. Scalvert did it with BASIC editing!
I had to do color management on the bulb and stars separate from the hand separate from the bulb base.
Did it the same way as scalvert though. I went out to google and searched for a moon image. Ended up with the same one scalvert used. (Should have read his notes first).
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Cloned in the bulb extension. Changed color to a yellowish hue. White balancing for flash color shifts the original white image on the monitor to a blue\cyan cast. Yellowish, comes out as very light blue\white under that white balance setting.
Opened lid of laptop flat on coffee table, set up tripod over laptop. Set up small soft box to light hands. Wrapped black fabric around tripod and camera to kill reflections.
Held bulb base in fingers and snapped away.
From there it was all about tweaking colors.
Hope you like. Hope it does justice to the original.
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Heh, people say it's so easy to use a monitor background, and now you know better, huh? The trick to the color is to concentrate on the hand ONLY. The monitor image will appear blue, but you can desaturate the blue channel to almost-gray and still get a realistic moon without affecting the hand at all.
Looks like you had trouble with scan lines, too- they were in many of my outtakes. The color of your hand looks really weird to me, and the glow seems confined, but I think you got a better bulb shape than I did. I'm glad someone tried one of my shots. Nice job! Interestingly, I got FAR more votes below 5 than you did. :-/
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