I'm not sure if you meant to show all the dodging that went in. But it is apparrent on the names on the papers, and around the pencil and the fingers holding the pencil. A little subdued dodging in that area would look a litte better to me.
The amount of post processing around the lamp chimney has made it look soft and slightly out of focus, while the lamp base is nice and sharp.
The picture is a little dark, but not overly so.
Overall I really like the picture, and as others mentioned it is much more photographic than some that came much closer to being drawings.
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An outstanding entry that still rings in my head. This image does away with any image manipulation and presents its delivery in pure photographic fashion. On top of that it is so funny.
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