I would have preferred to add the "You're Dead" into the display in post-process, but that is against Advanced Rules, so I typed the text into Microsoft Word and took a picture of my screen with the phone.
Lit with bounced flash, but with long (2-second) expsoure to allow display to glow.
Original File CRW_8383.crw
Post Process 2 RAW Conversions
+ Layer 1 - Full Auto Conversion
+ Layer 2 - Display - Under exposured in conversion
Delete all but display from layer 2 (which is in Multiply mode) and bump up contrast.
Copy merged and paste into new 5x7 document
Transform - Rotate and resize
Clean up a bit with clone and Healing brush
Some dodging and burning here and there
Provia action
Urban Acid action
Curves to s-shape
Resize
Agressive USM - On Luminodity mode
Save for Web
Try not to kill again :-)
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Well, I think the pinkish background may have been a little better if it were more reddish. I also think that while this may have some funny advertizing uses it is not the kind of shot most people are going to want a print to hang on wall. My other thought is that whenever you add text to a photo you take away from the photo, i.e. how could you 'show' dead vs. say dead?
The lighting is a little bit on the bright side, especially for a topic as dark as death. May have done better in an irony challenge? Especially with the smiley?
What I think you have done successfully is that your subject is clear and sharp and the viewer is not distracted by any extraneous and unneccessary information.
I like the dynamic composition, the "X" has fatal undertones, but I don't find it too compelling because I can't figure out the logic behind the phone resting on the knife, since the knife (which is clean so hasn't been used yet) theoretically belongs to the killer while the phone belongs to the victim. Also, how can a phone call be dead?
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