Lit from behind with a neon table lamp, and from the front right with a flash into an umbrella. Was surprised to see the shadow in front, but guess the lamp was on through the whole exposure.
Frustrated that I couldn't lighten the top-left of the image, and couldn't remove the texture of the paper.
Post-processing: contrast mask, curves, resize.
Hoping for a high 5.
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Hi paule,
This image does'nt really work for me. I don't care for the compostion here one line dead center leaveing to much dead space to the left and right. Also as you noted yourself the contrasting shades upper left, lower right are killers. The overall texture is also bothersome. Also your first shell (bottom 1/3) the focus seems a bit soft.
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