I'm glad for an expert editing challenge for once. This allowed me to take the idea I had in my head, and make it real. I did pretty much exactly like I envisioned, so I am very happy with the result.
I fully expect to get a validation request in the middle of voting. People will certainly think the text is added, but it is not. I printed out the numbers to tape on the wall. And I printed out the sign to tape on a piece of poster board. No lettering was added in post processing.
The main things I used expert editing for were adding the lines, and some aggressive Nik Color Efex Pro filtering. The Nik filtering may be legal in advanced, but in expert I have no fear to push it. This is what really gave me the grungy look.
Looking back to my first self portrait entry a few years ago, I have certainly come a long way in photographic and editing abilities. That image scored 4.7, so I'm hoping for at least a point higher.
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For fun, I looked back at my previous entries to see what I scored on shots where my face was shown.
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