Well done, a strong entry. Nice usage of dof manipulation with the focal pop really jumping out at us. Your exposure is good and your balance is solid. NICE.

That's a lot of work

Just a distort filter and hdr. ....and the filters work on the entire photograph, so there was no selective work done as per rules.

I don't think you could have done a better job with the colors.

Awwww and I struggled with that, whew what a relief that you liked it too. I also put on a poster filter on this.

A bit dark and hard to see Author: the rim lighting is nice, but in my opinion you might have tried a bit of fill lighting on the face to brighten up the label and remove the heavy shadows.

I like the the side lighting and shadows is casts. But it would have greatly enhanced the picture to add some soft lighting to the front in order to bring out the label more.