Pocket watch

This is a wall clock which was my grandmother's - it's shaped like a giant pocket watch. I was just messing about with this, and the photos came out a bit unspectacular, with a massive blue tinge and not capturing the antiquey feel of the clock. So Photoshop to the rescue - I played around with the levels a lot, plus contrast, a little yellow Photo Filter and some elements of the pseudolomo technique posted in the Techniques group at

 

www.flickr.com/groups/topic/12082/

 

As promised, this is an updated version, but I'm still not sure I'm through with it, so comments would be great.

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