still life Hardware

David,

I like the tones and the rusty grit of your shot.  I also very much like that you chose to include an element that was not like all the others (the bolt), which makes the image, to me at least, much more interesting than a straight texture shot of nothing but the metal "noodles".  I took the liberty of running your image through Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 (Tonal Contrast preset) and then, using PS levels, I tried to bring out the bolt a bit from the rest of the image--I tried to do it in a subtle way but with the objective of helping the viewer's eye come to rest on the main object of interest.  Nice capture! DanJ