The fun part of this shot was designing the garden! Had lots of problems getting a half decent shot due to reflections on the glass and not having an external flash.
Heavily edited: Relight on pebbles and stones, Midtones sharpened, top left burned to hide reflections, cloned out unwanted specks of sand, vignetted, resized, sharpened and cropped.
Its not the most creative shot so any score in the 5s and I will be happy.
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Interesting take on this challenge. Technically the shot is well composed, lighting is good, it's in focus etc, so all good from that point of view.
I believe the primary reason it did not score higher was down to the inclusion of the computer monitor in the background. I personally am struggling with the relevance of this as in my opinion it spoils what is quite a good image.
I'm afraid I gave it a fairly low score, due to the background. Would have been considerably higher without the computer there.
Very well setup and lit. I like the monitor for scale. The brown of the background is a bit distracting, but maybe the monitor would have been lost in the black. I don't know. Not voting.
Some of the little toy pictures aren't as good as this one, which comes across with a sense of humor, like a cartoon. Omitting the monitor and lighter (?desktop) background would have enhanced this a lot for me. Unhappy having to give a vote for the whole thing, would rather vote 6 on the bottom two thirds and 2 or 3 for the top third.
I really like the bottom half, but I don't get the connection with the monitor. Sorry! Still giving an OK score because of the great lighting and scene.
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