Set-up: Glasses on white card stock with two halogen flashlights, one on each side, pointing to the background. There was also a little natural light coming from a window behind me.
Post-processing: cropped some off the top, slight USM, greyscaled then changed to quadtones. Created an adjustment layer for levels and curves, resized and SFW.
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Place: 70 out of 363 Avg (all users): 5.6537 Avg (commenters): 6.5000 Avg (participants): 5.6692 Avg (non-participants): 5.6371 Views since voting: 1130 Views during voting: 324 Votes: 257 Comments: 13 Favorites: 1 (view)
Even without WOW factor, I think this rated higher than 5.654. The exposure and focus were both carfully controlled to meet your objective and the composition was at least thoughtful. I'm not sure how that results in so many 5s on a scale of 1 to 10. Would have been a 7 from me, but evidently I didn't vote on enough to reach this one (sorry).
Great focus and lighting. The only fault I can cite (no pun intended) is that it doesn't have a compelling composition of space for me. I think the slightly soft focus is perfect.
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