The clown was not performing at the time, but just waiting for a tourist to show up so he could put on his fake smile while they posed with him, snapped a picture, and tipped him a dollar. I could just see how tired and bored he was with the whole thing.
Not much processing ... crop, levels, contrast, brightness, lightness, saturation, USM, resize, USM, border, S4W. Yeah, his right shoulder is a bit hot, his face is in shadow, and I don't like the hot spots and harsh shadows on his nose, but for candids I think the expression and the moment is more important than technical perfection. Hope this does well with the voters.
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Post-challenge: Well, I thought this was going to do much better. I think the voters spent more time in this challenge looking at the technicals, then at the expressions ... not just on my image, but on most of them in the challenge.
Re: the saturation comments ... i actually desaturated this guy on purpose, because I thought the muted towns accentuated his expression and the feeling I got from this shot better than the oversaturated clown-feel that many seemed to want.
fwiw -- here is the original:
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