Things March 10th

In this photo, I was attempting to take a photo of an everyday object, and take a closer look at it. What I did was I took pictures of trees, rocks, bars, and I took one of my dies around and took pictures of it around different areas. I liked this one above the rest because it blurs out the background giving more emphasis on the die itself. Of course though, I modified the image a little bit, starting off with a cropping so that the subject isn't at the center of the of the image. I also modified the curves in Photoshop to at more brightness into the bright area, and made the darker areas darker, that's why the die looks a little bit cool. Then I modified the vibrance and the saturation of the image so look more alive. Originally I had the image be a little just black and white, but someone suggested that the color looks better with the background. The only issue I'm having with this picture is whether or not I did a little too much modifying with the curves tool, to me the effects looks cool, but I don't know how others will look at it.