This kettle must be very antique... it's beautiful!

Thank you, I think it used to belong to my great grand mother, this competition got it polished.

It is certainly on theme, but I think the background is very distracting and takes away from the beautiful kettle. You should play with the curves a bit IMO.

I agree with Locks.... can you reshoot with a darker background? Play with lighting?

You are probably both right, but I have shot a lot of photos, playing with backgrounds and lighting. I'm not totally happy either, but with my set-up, I'm afraid this is the best I could do.

Excellant..Author

The set up is not that bad but the creases in the sheet you used are a little distracting so using a darker background would have probably been much better.