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.
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.

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.

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.








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