This was taken at the 11th annual UFO Festival hosted by McMenamins in McMinnville, OR. There I saw an assortment of people dressed in Alien costumes, but by far the most intriguing thing I saw all day was this odd couple, an immensely obese woman and his tiny alien dog with fairly wings. Surrounded by a crowd of aliens all waiting to see who won the "Alien Pet Costume Contest". This wasn't the first place winner, but it sure made a great photo.
Editing:
1. Crop
2. Hue/Sat for B&W
3. Curves for a tad more contrast
4. Gaussian Blur
The editing was relatively simple. The crop only excludes a small portion of the photo to the left to get the woman and her dog in the right place, the light was fairly good so just bump of contrast with curves made it perfect. Yes, it's synthetic bokeh, GB did the trick just fine.
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A nice conversion to b/w. The blur looks as if it was created during post processing, which works nicely for isolating the subject, but doesn't really seem to fit with the spirit of the challenge.
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