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From the parts we make music.
From the parts we make music.
KiwiChris


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Parts (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot G5
Location: Lounge, at home.
Date: Oct 4, 2004
Aperture: F/3.5
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/250th
Galleries: Still Life, Macro
Date Uploaded: Oct 5, 2004

 Shot of our old upright piano with the front off. Taken with a 24x18" flash softbox positioned right on the keyboard.

Post processing was crop - scale - light USM, and save to meet 150k limit.

Not sure how this will go, as I didn't want to make the title really obvious, but I imagine lots of folks wont recognise what it is.. Oh well, to the whim of the voters we go... :-).

For those who don't know. The wee leather bits are the ends of the hammer return straps, and the wooden bits above are the strikers that hit the back of the hammer if you really nail a note, and also where the hammer falls back to when it returns.

The piano isn't actually playable, it's yet another project. Fixing the piano that is. The minor detail that I can't play it is something else I might have to work on if I ever get around to fixing it.

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Votes: 266
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon PowerShot S30
 10/12/2004 09:33:30 PM
I would have liked a deeper DOF
Sony DSC-H3
 10/11/2004 12:16:52 PM
Interesting angle
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 10/08/2004 08:49:07 PM
returning for comments

From the upright piano. Eould have loved a deeper dof but the message remains clear. I can hear it. lol
Canon EOS-1D Mark II
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 10/06/2004 09:01:18 PM
Excelent depth of field. The use of subtle colors and voids are drawing to me. Great work!
Canon EOS-7D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 10/06/2004 07:15:35 PM
this screams for a better DOF, at least IMHO
10/06/2004 04:44:52 PM
Clever idea. My kids are always opening the upright and pulling on the hammers.Like the angle of the shot.
Canon EOS-20D
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG Macro for Canon
 10/06/2004 02:41:12 PM
Interesting viewpoint, warm colours, good use of DOF. I can hear the music...wish I could play it. I can't help thinking that it may have been better with the point of focus one or two hammers further down the row? You didn't take some others with different POF did you? Especially with the one in focus in a different position, as if about the strike? Or am I getting carried away here?
Canon EOS-20D
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 10/06/2004 08:14:11 AM
Too much of it is out of focus for my tastes.
Nikon D70
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 10/06/2004 01:49:31 AM
a larger dof would help this image.
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