A snowman (snowcube?) ornament my grandmother purchased at Bronner's Christmas Village in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Photograph was taken on my front porch as the sun was just above the tree line. White foamboard used for surface and background.
I adjusted the color cast based on a yellowish spot in his hat, cloned out some dust, used despeckle, adjusted brightness by -15 and contrast by +15. This left the blue in the lighter parts of the background a little too blue, so I used color cast again based on the upper right area of the background. Resized and sharpened, then added a border.
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Cute prop and you got the lighting very well. I think that your score will suffer from it being a shot of a decoration and the background seams being readily apparent. I think if you used a colorful background a lot of this might be overcome.
The object says December and sharpness is good. I find the background with the line running thru the object and creating a weird distortion and the harsh shadows to be severe distractions from the image. 5
Nice composition, an ok photo, but not very interesting, well it could maybe be in a calendar, but I would pick some other photo to convey the Christmas month. Technically the photo is well done.
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