Shot in RAW. Adobe Lightroom: Desaturation, minor adjustments in exposure, blacks, Brightness & contrast. PSCS: Crop, Levels, Size, minute Colorisation.
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Thanks everybody for the kind comments. This was such fun to create. It took me hours I think. I tried to recreate the original picture of the Moon Landing by using a powdery substance and a similar angle of lighting from the sun. To be perfectly honest I was amazed at how close the picture looked when I first desaturated my picture.
I bought some wholemeal flour, I thought it would be perfect as moon powder whilst maintaining some sort of graining. Next I had to make the footprint and at first I thought of using my girlfriends apres-ski boots, but decided that the footprint would look too disimilar to Armstrong's. :-) Therefore I had to make one myself. Bought some plasticine and started creating the "boot". I was amazed at how difficult plasticine is to work with (very sticky) - well the last time I used it was probably in the 1970s anyway. :-)
Setup the flour on a slightly tilted carton, using a large spoon to distribute it evenly and create some bumps on the surface. Then pressed the boot against it. Lighting was done using a handheld sinlge LED and tried to get the shadows very close to the original picture (there was a longer shadow at the back and the front of the picture). I wanted to immediatelly remind the viewer of the original and judging from your comments I think I succeeded.
I took about 40-50 pictures, using different angles and tried to do the footprint twice more. The chosen picture was from the first "take".
I have uploaded a couple of pictures of my setup to my portfolio:
here and here
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I love the idea. Footprints are hard to photograph correctly. I'm guessing you were trying to replicate the actual photo and probably did a great job of it. For a photo challenge, you run into a problem, since the original photo was not that successful as an image, just as a recording of history. I think you would have to go beyond a reproduction in this challenge and create an even stronger image in order to be a top image. IMHO. 5
... in the studio? It is ironic that some people are saying that the CIA faked the whole thing, and now we are celebrating this with another fake image. Weird.
My year!!! How did you get to the moon, when I checked, all flights were full .... haha! Good one! Although the pic in itself is grey and flat, it really looks true, so ... 8!
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