Okay, so I used a photo from the shots I took for the 80's challenge. It just seemed to fit the technique. I figured I would stick with the Cure theme, thus the title. Anyway, if you didn't see the details from my 80's entry, this is my son posing in Robert Smith mode. It was in a dark parking lot so I used a tripod and my son sat very still. Here's the post processing:
cropped
adjusted levels
adjusted brightness/contrast
converted to grayscale
converted to duotone mode
adjusted levels a bit more
converted back to RGB
Hope you like it.
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This photo didn't score very well for several reasons. First of all, I am not completely sure the subject and technique lend themselves well to the duotone theme. The toning choices you chose don't seem to add to the subject or the mood of the photo. The second issue is that it's a character portrait that very few people will find a connection with. Any photo of a person posted for public consumption needs some element of universal understanding, either in the subject itself or in the presentation of that subject. The high contrast portion of your composition is nice, but I don't care much for the motion blur from the long exposure. I will say that the motion blur may be adding an extra sense of tension in the image, but it's just not my favorite way to present things.
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