Shot Raw. Moved to PS untouched. Auto Levels. Brightness -7. Contrast +21. Blue: Sat. +19. Yellow: Sat +51 Hue +11. Green: +22. Red Hue +18. Unsharp mask. Saved For Web.
This is a ship in a bottle purchased at The Corning Glass Center. Shot from below, while hanging on a lampshade with a blue bulb. Flash bounce from above.
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I like the position of the in focus piece of glass in the frame and the choice of colours are good but the rest of the image looks very busy. As one of your commenters mentions the blue at the bottom center ir also very distracting.
Technicals:
I think the focus on the small squares of glass is good but the different colours and shapes in the rest of the shot become distracting due to their out of focus look. The lighting looks fairly good on the in focus glass.
My personal thought:
The challenge description said the subject should not easily be identificable at first glance. The thing I struggle with with this shot is had I not read your description I would still not know what I was looking at and I think maybe voters were looking to at least be able to make out the subject after one or two glances.
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