My grandmother's handmade opal necklace and diamond earings. Shot using (3) Lowes clip-lamps with GE natural light bulbs & the on-camera flash for pop.
In Photoshop, opened, Levels, Curves, Hue&Sat, Selective Color, clone, heal, dodge, burn, resize, border, USM, save for web.
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Nice composition, but on my monitor the hotspots on the opal pendant seem blown out, as does much of the white background. A more diffuse light source may have helped you here.
I think the placement of the bow and tinsel is too matchy matchy. I think it'd be more artful if the pendant wasn't so centered. I'd lay it lazily, and maybe have the earrings together with a tight macro. The bow looks kind of bent and old. I don't think it even adds to the shot. I'd remove it, crop it out, so that would help the target center issue of the pendant. The gold of the tinsel mimics the gold chain and the bezel of the earrings. This has definite potential.
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