Extracted from RAW with default settings, then cropped, resized to 640px, and sharpened. I then took two layer copies, and ran the 'Virtual Photographer - Hollywood' contrast b&w filter on one, then faded 33% onto a -100% desat layer. The final layer I deleted until just the ball was left, boosted saturation +20%, a little burning to get the sky & buildings, and merged all the layers.
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Very cool! To be honest, I was turned off by the fact that you are in the reflection but the overall effect won me over in the end. Nice job on a great concept...
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to vote low on this one... potentially a good idea, but the obvious reflection of the photographer and house with driveway really ruin this image for me. To me it says either 1.) Lack of inspiration or worse 2.) Laziness. - 3
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