Ah! I can sleep five more minutes this morning...nice!
Post-production:
-Crop
-Resize
-Neat Image
-Levels
-Bumped up saturation a bit to redden the fingernails more(master)
-Darkened hightlights to warm the skin on the fingers (Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Shadows/Highlights)
- USM (Amt:83, Rad:1.2, Thrshld:2)
Statistics
Place: 87 out of 266 Avg (all users): 5.5556 Avg (commenters): 6.7333 Avg (participants): 5.3026 Avg (non-participants): 5.6929 Views since voting: 1235 Views during voting: 312 Votes: 216 Comments: 16 Favorites: 0
Ah, yes. That IS a simple pleasure, and dangerous too! ;^) That's why my alarm clock is on the other side of the room. He-he. As far as your image goes, it's composed just fine. I like the angle and it even works in a square crop as you've done. Exposure, clarity, focus...all fine. I know it's hard, but images can really show the dirt/dust that you barely see with the naked eye. That's my only complaint (a minor one at that) - a little more attention to detail would probably boost this .5 to 1 point in scoring.
A good shot and an interesting idea, but it is really hard for me to be pleased looking at an alarm!!
Maybe with a hammer instead of some fingers it would be really pleasant!