Carved a feather into a quill pen, which actually worked somewhat ... since it only has one "piece" I included the most-necessary accessories.
-Handheld, manual mode
-SuperMacro mode
-Noise-reduction with PictureCooler
-RGB Curve
-Blue/Yellow Curve
-Resize
-Crop from top and bottom to 3:2 aspect ratio
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 9/10 = 227KB
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Just having a little tip of the sword on the left isn't working for me. I wish that whole space was empty. Am also struggling to see how this is disassembled.
I'm not sure I get a strong relationship to the topic. I think you're trying to touch it on a purely conceptual level, so I won't ding you down too much. As far as the shot goes, the most prominent feature is the date, and not the tip of the feather pen (as I suspect it should be). Some sharper DOF might help. I think if you were to crop this to remove the knife (sword reference), it would still hold the same power, but be more formally beautiful.
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