making it more interesting

[MyFirstCam]

I have this picture, where kind of I like the pattern of the wheels and he texture of the rust. Since a lot of the details got lost on the org. picture, I ended up doing quite a lot of postwork on it, but I'm still not really satisfied. Did I take it too far with postwork, should it be black\white. What do you think?

[Sterling]

I think you did a good job with the crop, getting rid of the distracting background. I think the PP looks pretty good. I like the fact that the eye is now immediately drawn to first rows of teeth. The centre portions of the wheel in the foreground may be a tad too dark. It may look good in B&W, but I like the purplish colour of the old corroded metal.

Just one question. What the heck is it?

[MyFirstCam]

Good question. I think the place was and old sawmill, or something like that. But it looks like it might be used in agriculture. Not sure.

[Mr. Clipit]

heres an edit of it after a 60 second split toning job in lightroom. I think the warm highlights kind of captures the rust feel. you can spend more time with it if you like the effect

[nathanbarlow]

me likes

nice use of DoF to draw the eye to the first teeth. I think it could do with a bit more colour balance tweaking to get the reddish of the rust back.

What ever it is, I'm staying the hell away from it, rusty or not!! Looks lethal