My guitar.
Flash fired at slow sync and turned down to -2.0. I held a sheet of white paper with my teeth on the side to bounce off some light, coming through the window and from the flash, back to the headstock to balance the shadows.
Processing: (Nikon Capture Editor & Photoshop CS)
- Adjusted contrast in Nikon Capture Editor.
- Transfered to Photoshop as an 8bit TIFF.
- Cropped to aspect.
- Adjusted curves.
- Converted to Monochrome.
- Converted to Tritone.
- Applied Unsharp Mask.
Statistics
Place: 11 out of 243 Avg (all users): 5.9705 Avg (commenters): 6.9286 Avg (participants): 5.8174 Avg (non-participants): 6.0833 Views since voting: 899 Views during voting: 344 Votes: 271 Comments: 18 Favorites: 0
The finger print is a nice touch. (Sorry for the pun. Maybe that sould be a New Year's resolution but it's not.)
Kidding aside, I like almost everything about this: framing, colors, sharpness. Just great!
Composition is good. Some nice detail. Your color/tone I think works good here. I think an improvement could be with lighting, either take the shadows away or make them more dramatic. Good shot. Nice lines that have the eye traveling across the photo.
I find this one interesting. I like the composition, and the fact that you can see a fingerprint on one of the tuners. I am a little turned off by the low light. I think the lighting could have been a bit more dynamic. Overall good work - 7.