AuntiPode 
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Here's my suggestion. The changes ought to seem small to most folks, although from your revised version comments you may find the darkening of the top not small. The intent was to tweak the presumed message focus without changing the flavor or intent by darkening and slightly blurring the tertiary objects, darkening the secondary one a little and spotting retouching to simplify by reducing bright or dark spots that could catch attention briefly. Also, the darkening puts more emphasis on the light in the pages. Note that the watch is not darkened much to retain it's presumed subject, while the cigar, ashtray and tea cup and saucer were darkened more on the assumption contribute lesser meaning. Also the brightness of the pages and watch combine with the darkened parts to tighten the effective composition and limit and guide the eye in a smaller, roughly triangular primary scan path. A secondary path takes the eye to the right. A tertiary path belatedly scans the remaining elements, reflecting the subordination of the elements. One important question to ask yourself when composing and again when finishing an image is how does the eye scan the image? Does the scan path add to the message or detract from it?
Edited on Jan 07, 2015 at 02:27 PM · View previous versions
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I am planning on having it printed on luster paper if that helps.
