Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
Nice colours and textures of the vase; it's hanging to the right side and the background disturbs a lot
Content/Composition
It's a close-up, but that's fine. The main object, the vase is well selected and showing it only partially is a good choice. Also the way you turned it with the orange triangle as the centre works well. If it would be better to see more or less of it at the top and bottom? Don't really know.
It should have been turned CCW also.
Unfortunately there is a second object: the wall paper. While not really sharp it still not just a background and thus the viewers eyes automatically look at it and start searching for .... well, nothing. A homogeneous background, maybe with some gradual variation of brightness would have been better: there is no need for a textured background, texture is already in the vase.
Another issue is the light: you have set it rather flat. My suggestion: play with a desk lamp by moving it around the object and look for the best effect. Especially when you have something with a 3-dim., grooved structure like the vase, the right angle of the light makes it all.
Camera work -technically
Focus is OK and you shouldn't have used a narrower DOF here. Of course the background shouldn't be focused too (see above). Exposure is at least 1 EV too dark. Whitebalnce is a little off.
Digital Processing - Technical
Nothing that has been done wrong, but you could have made considerable improvements: rotation, increase of saturation to bring out the colours, increasing overall brightness and blurring of the background (would have been allowed this time).
It's not oversharpened but could be more crisp. But that's more a light issue.
Fits the challenge
Of course it does. Maybe a slightly closer look might have been better in the eyes of the voters.
Good luck for you further submissions
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