Home made light box, usm'd twice a 50%, 5 radius, 4 threshold, selective color adjustments to black and white, contrast boosted a little, thats all folks.
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It just looks too nice for garbage. The lighting is wonderful. I need to make my own lightbox someday too. But it all looks too staged and antiseptic. I think that's your biggest problem. The composition isn't bad, but is too symmetrical and centered. We have 4 elements all mirroring each other. That adds to the unrealistic nature. I think we wanted our garbage to look like garbage...(see ribbon winners).
like the contrast amongst black, white and red. would like to see just a bit more black at the top and bottom for greater image balance. it also appears that the black in the lower right corner is deteriorating just a bit, which is distracting.
i like this image very much, it's one of my favorites so far for this challenge.
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