City sponsored banner on a streetlight pole -- I liked the way the text lined up with the moon, and the generic, inarguable, non-sectarian nature of the message.
- Rotated a bit so the left side of the pole is vertical (started with the right side vertical, but it tapers noticably).
- Cropped, retouched-out a bit of roof tile still showing in the lower left corner.
- One RGB tone curve to bring out the striping in the backlit banner.
- After resizing, I added four pixels of canvas to bring it back to an exactly standard 640x480 size; blurred the addition and a few neighboring pixels to blend it in.
- One application of USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5.
- JPEG=9/10.
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I like the image. I think it might have suffered a bit in the scores because it may not necessarily always be immediately considered a decoration (although it technically is). In addition, people tend to not like big expansive (and largely empty) blue skies. I think bear's comment about the moon in a different position might work well (although I believe illegal for challenges), because the connection between Peace and the moon is not immediately evident either.
In the end, it is a technically sound image that simply suffers based upon a viewers interpretation of the challenge and the image - and these are probably the two things that would turn it around the most. Happy Holidays :)
The moon is precisely in the vertical center of the image right now and the entire left side of the image is just negative blue space. If the moon were out a ways, not too far, and (IMO, but less importantly, up a little) I think there'd be a tad more dynamic flow to this image.
It's hard to explain; it's like, right now, I can't tell from the image itself if the moon was an accident, you know?
Actually, now that I think of it, out and down a tad might work better. Why not do a couple variations in photoshop? Select the moon and some sky with the circle marquee and paste it, use the clone tool to cover the "real" moon with sky on the base layer, then use the arrows to drag the moon layer around to different places and see how it looks. You can scale it up and down too, see what possibilities might have existed with a different lens, etc.
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