Well I guess i'll be harsh then
I think the little cannon is neat. I do wish that you would have captured the whole flame in the frame(say that three times fast) It also looks like you bumped up the blacks,contrast,and saturation a bit. I would have liked to have scene some more of the cannon with more light on it. Also I wish the matchbox was all in the frame too. GL
TJ
I agree, I would have liked to see the whole flame. Did you try just spot metering the flame? I know you didn't have much time. You should snap off a match really short, light it, blow it out, then drop it down the barrel so that you get a cannon smoking as if just fired. That would be clean. I don't really have any technical advice though, just that you should get the whole flame in the shot if you do it again.