Photography Then & Nowby
ChefbozComment by Bear_Music: *** C R I T I Q U E C L U B C O M M E N T ***
Speaking of this as a photograph (as opposed to a challenge entry) one immediately notices 3 things; it's out of focus or softened too much, the color cast is way warm, and the background dominates the image. All of these are unnatural looking components of the image, and taken together make it not work very well.
The choice of BG color is also questionable, as it too-closely matches up with the colors on the old camera's leather casing.
Speaking of this as a challenge entry, I'd comment that all of the above caused the image to be downgraded in score, and it wasn't helped by the fact that it was only one of many "old v new" camera shots.
Assuming you had wanted to continue with this theme, and interesting approach to take might have been to split the background diagonally frum upper left to lower right and have an "old" and a "new" background also, perhaps one shiny and the other like the one you chose, but a different color.
Overall, it seems a failed image, basically, soft and static with most of the attention grabbed by the overly complex BG.
Robt.
