Dime and a stack of mail (you know, bills). A vision of the current state of the economy, mine in particular. :-(
The dime is held on-edge with a small glob of tacky adhesive, surface is semi-glossy black graphic arts film.
I was torn about the title, my first option was "Brother, Can You Spare A ...", and the second thing I thought Might be both apt and more descriptive was "My Unbalanced Budget", but of course it looks like I'll go with the punniest choice.
Tilted composition reinforces the "unbalanced" aspect (as does the DOF blur), and makes the stack of envelopes look a little like surf about to crash down on (crush) the coin.
I also like how (especially in the thumbnail) it also resembles the back half of a car speeding away into the night ... :-)
-Handheld, SuperMacro mode
-CFL swing-arm lamp, Auto WB
-Channel Mixer, monochrome mode
-RGB Curve
-A little local dodging/burning on the coin
-RGB Curve
-Resize
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5 (applied twice)
-Clone out a few dust specks
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 123KB
File: Dime_IMG_3543-DPC.jpg
Statistics
Place: 169 out of 177 Avg (all users): 4.5672 Avg (commenters): 7.0000 Avg (participants): 4.3947 Avg (non-participants): 4.7931 Views since voting: 958 Views during voting: 228 Votes: 134 Comments: 1 Favorites: 0
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.