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Jaded_HousewifeComment by DrAchoo: Last minute entries can be dangerous, eh?
Actually I think there is some promise to the picture overall. But, yes, it does need some work.
1) It's soft. I didn't see which lens you were using, but we needed to either a) put it on a tripod if you were handholding at 1/60 or b) increase DOF (which would probably mean you needed a tripod anyway). You can see the gear in the front is sharper than the gear in back. Either way, they are both soft.
2) The interesting parts, the gears, are dark while the more boring part (the front) is light. Could we have moved or manipulated the object or the lighting to reverse this?
3) I would have cropped even tighter to remove the object on the right. Although some might complain, I may even cut off a small part of the big gear. That may lead to a my dynamic picture.
4) Many times in pictures that lack strong colors, changing to B&W is helpful. The picture then becomes one of texture, shape and pattern. You probably need to increase contrast too, although as is the front will blow out even more so you'd have to fix the lighting first.
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