Old Gold Balance Instrumentby
clickodakComment: Backup Quarterback for the Critique Club here :-)
Let me start with one thing I immediately noticed that is outstanding about this image: the rendering of the brass, the color and luminosity of it, is exceptional. That's not easy to do. In fact, overall there's a nice sense of airy luminosity to this image.
Also on the plus side, the subject fits the challenge quite well, and it's relatively "original" in the sense that it's not the same stuff everyone else throws in. So kudos for that.
On the negative side, there's one think that bugs the heck out of me: that MASS of nothing-at-all behind the back glass of the cabinet. It would have been great to have SOMEthing back there to give context to the tool, something that indicated "jewelry store" in this case.
In the end, what we have here is a technically excellent depiction of an old tool, without context of any sort, that might have been taken for an insurance file or something; there's nothing to get the voters involved in the picture, and voter involvement is the key to higher scores. For example, had your jeweller been in the act of weighing things, had the image included a hand with a forceps placing more gold on the balance, that could have possibly moved you up into the mid-6 score range right there.
Takeaway: try to get us involved in "the story" with an image like this; not just "here it is" but "here's how it is used, or was used...
Robt.
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