One of the ink ductor rollers on one of our offset presses at work.
Handheld, fluorescent lighting.
-RGB Curve
-Blue Curve
-Crop a little from bottom and left
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 16%/64 dia/TH=0
-USM at 88%/0.8 dia/TH=5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 110kb
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While this shot does meet the challenge, there is nothing here to hold your interest. I can not tell what the item is I am looking at, and I can not tell what is reflected in the chrome. Adding something recognizable in the reflection, or allowing us to understand what the object actually is would help this shot tremendously.
your subject is not very intresting....infact I am not even sure what the subject is. Ether your photo is blury or your depth of field is too shallow. I recomend using a smaller apature (larger fstop).