Silver violin 1

The background is too noisy - It distracts the eye...

A solid color could have helped a lot...

I disagree with the above. It IS noisy, yes, but it is meant to be that way, that's obvious enough... This picture is loaded, crowded, and hawkward: it fight centuries of tradition and that's why I rate it 9 for originality. Rated 5 + in average ? Well, it surely deserves better than that, but I have noticed that subtle still life shots and even still life shots in general are not doing very well on photo.net... Why is it so, I wonder... (By the way, I would be interested to get your opinion on my violin shot in my " Still Life " folder. It's the first studio shot I took with my Linhof, years ago, and it has a kind of sentimental value for me...).

Besides this, the light is ok, but simple, and that's maybe what I would have done in a very different way... Glowing flowers and violin, with a confused assymetrical lighting would have been my choice...