Took this shot of part of my tractor's engine this morning. Used levels, cropped, unsharp mask, and hard mix lighting to increase the graininess...I like it; it has an industrial and abstract feeling...but that's only my opinion!
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My intial impression here was YIKES thats bright hand me the sunglasses. Now all joking aside I think you lost a lot of character and charm in your processing. You do have the grain to meet the challenge but the colors are just to bold and become a complete distraction.
I wish the caution label would have actually been readable and again your colors seem to have taken charm from this tractor.