Cropped, Magnetic Lasso Tool to capture spike for contrast/brightness, saturation, sepia & cyan photo filters and to invert region in order to desaturate & adjust brightness, finally deselected in order to sharpen 3X, Resize, and Save for Web
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The concept is wonderful - as a previous comment stated, it was refreshing to see this interesting take on the challenge! Your post processing definitely seems to be effective - good contrast and sharpening. I particularly like the composition and depth of focus here. I also like how, while the spike and the background are pretty much the same color, they do stand out from one another.
The thing that, in my opinion, hurt the shot the most is the harsh shadow. It just attracts the eye a bit too much, so shooting at a different time of day or adding more lighting may have helped. Another thing that may have looked nicer is if the white spots (kind of in a parallel line to the black line) were removed either before the shot or in post processing. However, that is very nitpicky and I definitely didn't notice any problems with that at first glance.
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