Interesting surrealistic image. Reasonable high technical quality. Colors and framing done well.
Image meets the challenge well and engages the viewer to think about what it might be. It has the general shape of the alien spacecraft in the old movie version of War of the Worlds.
On the technical side the image has two noticable hot spots. One is on the left tip of the 'craft' and the other near the joint in the left 'arm'. They are slight distractions in the composition.
It is slightly low in contrast. You can tell because a simple autocontrast increases the contrast. Increasing contrast will make the image pop more and have greater eye impact. This one, however, is very challenging. There is a lot of fine detail in the light shadow that you don't want to lose which easily gets lost in a levels, curves, selective color or even just a strait black point adjustment. That further blows out the two hot spots. You might try an increase of about +4-5% in black with a selective color adjustment. This will effectively increase contrast without making the hot spots bigger. Then apply dodge and burn to bring out shadow detail in the interesting areas and tone down the two hot spots.
All in all this is one of the top images in the challenge and should place very high, perhaps in the ribbons.
The top part of Bot looks fantastic. Lighting is terrific, and the surface is, too. The bottom part is less interesting and a little hard to make out. That said, fun way to meet the challenge. I like it.
The lighting on this toy? gives it the air of realism. Do wish the left hand edge would be included in the photo and the light? in front of the right hand wing would be removed/cloned out. 6
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