I swore I wasn't going to take anything for this challenge and then I was unpacking some holiday stuff and here was this shiny, starry ribbon and ... I know, I'm hopelessly addicted to the Update button ;-)
Played with the light and the position of the ribbon to get some cool starry shadows. Background is the solid blue back cover of a book. Light was coming in from the window, I had a desk lamp directly above the ribbon, and used the on-board flash dialed down several stops with a Puffer diffuser for a little fill light.
PP - converted from RAW, cloned out wee bit of table in upper left corner, shifted/colored blues to be more uniform, white balance, increased contrast, slight burn on shadows, healed/touched up a couple of spots, blurred background a little more, resized, sharpened with slight noise reduction.
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lovely studio effort - the shadows created by the ribbon really improves the overall appeal of the image to me - i just wish the top star and edge of the ribbon were not blown
I really like your idea, so I hope you don't mind a touch of criticism. I think you should have cropped out the distracting gold star at the top. If you hold your hand over the top the lighting seems so much more subtle. Good luck.
there is one little star in the upper left of the ribbon thats blown out a little bit, and thats the only thing distracting me. other then that, i like the choice of background and color.
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