Well...don't really care how this scores. While the rollover occurred I was happily in..well, I got married the day this challenge ended so it matters not how this does.
White piggy bank, lit from beneath, top and both sides with multiple diffusers on all sides of different thicknesses (total of 1750 watts). Pig had pennies taped to top of inside and was propped up with a lighter to keep it off the background and eliminate the shadow, inside a light tent.
Raw - +.3 exp. comp., transferred to editor
Editor as RAW:
1 layer pig only:
WB - pick color - spot on top of head at end of slot; sensitivity 1; ambient light 300
Levels - 0/1/221
NI - default profile
1 layer background and pennies:
levels 0/1/166
Merge all layers
Rotate
Crop
NI - default
Touch-up - spots on face
Clone - dust spot removal
Blur - edge - bottom of pig (eventually cropped out)
Sharpen - edge - bottom of pig (eventually cropped out)
Brightness -6
Contrast +6
Crop
Resize
Sharpen +10
Save for web
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Great composition. But I'm not fond of the greenish pig, I think it would have worked better with just the pennies in color. I'd also prefer a deeper DOF, so the whole pig were sharp.
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