... or the sequel, For A few Dollars More (with no apologies to Clint Eastwood or Sergio Leone) ... money/greed seems to be the current ethos of the USA, especially unearned money (think Super-Lotto or Wall Street), and I wanted an image which would also echo the image of the Statue of Liberty.
I wanted to get a shot with sun-flare behind the fist to evoke the torch flame, but by the time I could set up the shot the sun was positioned where there would have been too many trees/leaves in the background.
-Handheld, Manual mode
-Fill-flash
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop a little from left
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 171KB
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Which country? Oh, if I look close I can see these are US dollars. SO the spirit of the USA is greedy capitialism is it? I'm not convinced. The shot lacks definition. Sorry, DNMC IMO.
his "statement" is spot on the challenge, IMO. the greed is good immorality ran into the perfect storm of a willfully ignorant populace that worships militarism. guess what? we cant afford empire now. time to see if perhaps our values are askew; time to see if our citizens might needs some of these bucks instead of the arms merchants and the other war profiteers. but I digress. great job of smacking the challenge theme over the head!
Great idea and composition, but I think that you could have improved the exposure, metering the sky and using some fill flash to give more colors to the picture.
Which country? Oh, if I look close I can see these are US dollars. SO the spirit of the USA is greedy capitialism is it? I'm not convinced. The shot lacks definition. Sorry, DNMC IMO.
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