Why NASA should hire me for their next Moon landing project

First thing first, I am not going for re-fueling any conspiracy theory here. I don't mind NASA landing on the Moon. I also don't mind NASA jazzing up the pictures a little before publishing. But if you are going to do it, then please do it right.

So I found the following picture of Buzz Aldrin on the Moon as photographed by Neil Armstrong on the Wikipedia article about Apollo 11.


And having experience with graphics design, a few inconsistencies stuck out to me right away. So I am providing the fix for them over here. I am not sure if people have beat me on this already, but just in case that post is still available.

1.  Horizon curvature on a curved surface fix - 
The curvature of the reflected horizon on a shiny spherical surface should have an upward curvature as shown in the example.




2. Luminance-fix - 
The luminance of on the left side of the spherical surface should be darker than the right on as it is curving away from the light source as shown in the example.


















3. Centre fix - 
The eye of this picture, Neil Armstrong's camera should be in the center of Buzz Aldrin's visor's reflection as shown in the sample. Now the visor might not have been a perfect sphere I understand, but still the offset of too high.



4. The abrupt cutoff of the visor glare fix -
I don't know what caused that, but it looks really unprofessional, so real or not just need to smooth it out at least for the esthetics. 


5 Reflection of The darts on the Lunar landing module - 
The devil is in the details so the darts on one of the leg of the lunar landing module should match that reflection. From the Buzz's point of the view (as represented in the reflection on his visor), there shouldn't be a hard line of the shadow rather the darts  covering it up as shown in the example.


 
So here is the all fixed up picture of the glorious Moon landing. Call me NASA or at least replace that Wikipedia picture with mine.





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