Remember the days when the operator was a person who would connect you to the person on the other end of the line; no hassle, no waiting, no computerized voice asking you to decrypt some code to proceed to the next menu...
This may totally bomb as everyone is likely looking for a person in the image, but with only 14 entries I decided to at least beef up the voting pool a little bit...
crop, remove dust, soft light layer, hue/saturation, balance levels, burn, sharpen, resize and post...
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Place: 15 out of 26 Avg (all users): 5.5429 Avg (commenters): 5.8571 Avg (participants): 5.0000 Avg (non-participants): 5.5833 Views since voting: 976 Views during voting: 422 Votes: 245 Comments: 15 Favorites: 1 (view)
It's nice, but the black areas really hurt this image - my eye is more drawn to the lower right corner than it is the subject, and that's certainly not a good thing. still, despite the issues, your concept is very good, and the image illustrates that idea well... 6
Clean, simple image. I can see it being used by a company, however personally it doesn't tick the creative/innovative part of the challenge so I take off one point. 8
I feel like this would have more of an impact if the headset was placed diagonally across the frame or even tilted just slightly. Just seems a little simple.
This is a nice product shot. I'm trying to figure out a good way that it would be used on a website, and thus far I'm failing. If I think of something, I will increase the vote.