My old Canon A-1 from the 80's, traveled many a mile with me. Used warm tones to reflect its normal fodder, Kodachrome 64 and print advertising typical of the period.
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The first thing I notice here is the dappled light on the body and the reflection on the lense. For me those are two huge distractions that even though they do not lower the image quality persay, it is perceived as lower.
I first notice that you are using natural lighting, which there is nothing wrong with it, but it does create a 'cooler' cast of light, or blue light. Most viewers prefer warmer tones to images for some reason. It also appears to have artificial lighting, maybe an overhead light? Though the natural light takes most of the cast.
Also, even though I understand and enjoy your concept I don't feel the subject takes center stage. There seems to be a lot of other things going on around it that distract the viewer, like trying to read the titles on the books and the highlight on the dolls face.
I personally feel if it was more simplistic (without the books) and a baffle to block the highlight on the doll would work better, and maybe landscape orientation , with a white sheet or something to cast a cleaner reflection on the glass.
I am looking at the subject itself, trying to determine the focus and it seems I can read the glass front just fine but the rest of the subject loses some focus. With these wonderful straight lines I would have preferred a strong sharp focus more so on the body, or even throughout the entire image.
Overall it is a nice job, just remember if you have a dark subject try not to put dark objects in the background, and avoid anything that may 'distract' the viewer away from the subject.
I do really enjoy the bamboo mate and the writing in the far background.
I think the only thing that "went wrong" with this one is no wow-factor, which is a must to score highly on this site. It's a great illustration of this camera, and would be wonderful in a book or on a web site discussing it. If you look at the voting breakdown, you will see it got a fair amount of 6's through 8's. A lot of people liked this one.
It's important to interpret and read an entries performance performance beyond the average score. It did not come up for me in voting, or I would tell you what I gave it. Remember a mediocre score on DPC is a darn good photo anywhere else.
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