Not sure this was worth all the trouble I went through in the set up, but I have new found appreciation for people who play Jenga! Shot with the camera on tripod and manual remote. I've also found my shooting area to be way to limited and need to expand it.
Post: Convert from raw in PSElements 3.0 with a +0.33 exposure compensation. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Spot edited aberrations in the upper most bottle caps. NeatImage. Sharpen. Selected the dark areas of the background and reset to black in a layer of levels adjustment. Layer of Curves of Adjustment. Rotate 90° right. Resize. Sharpen.
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I think it turned out great. It looks so 3-dimensional. I can't figure out why it only scored 5.3. That seems like a very underrated score to me for this cool photo!
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