Single halogen lamp below and right of board
I either got reflection of a cabinet behind or light on the black velvet underneath.
straighten
crop
adjust colors
spot heal white spots
Tribute to Whiterook with pieces pretty much identically positioned. Didn't have black pieces, so original title doesn't fit well.
[post] OK, I moved the board from original location and messed up on the kings row, so black (clear) isn't checkmated after all. Thanks for the suggestions. This was 4.9xxx all week. I thought a bump at the end would bring it over 5.0, but no luck.
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Cropping at bottom is odd, I don't like the straight angle on the left and the variances of the squares on the right. Either all 90 degrees of keep things on the angle.
nice take on the original, it must have been hard to get enough lighting on the board without blowing out the pieces, I'm wondering if you could've tried lighting from below the board with a little bit of light from above. the only other nitpicky thing would be that the glass is dusty. I tried messing around with this in photoshop and it has real potential - I would try converting to b&w and using dodge/burn to even out the lighting, and selective highlighting on the squares to get rid of dust, darken black squares and lighten white squares. this is a very good start, good luck in the challenge
either way this is a better photo than the original "whiterook" one, tiles look grainy but I think they were made that way, solid would have been better
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