You'll never guess what this is:
I pointed the camera at the black, shiny surface of my microwave. The imperfections in the surface distorted the reflected image of my kitchen. But I think the appeal of this image is its tendency to become a Rorsharch test.

Favorite Aspects: Ambiguity; abstraction: it's an image minus the mental associations you have for each object or setting. It looks real, but making sense of it is hopeless. There's realistic light, color, value and shape, but no immediate corresponding three-dimensional form or meaning in the viewer's mind.

Enhancements / touch-ups: Color grain reduction, contrast increased, saturation (color intensity) increased; the black microwave flattened the values and color.

Common Photo Adjustments

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