Shot with two incandescent work lights, left and right oblique (I really need to get some good lights). Slight crop and rotate. Lots of speck, spot, and ding removal. It's an old violin with a lot of dings and I debated on how much "healing" to do with the clone stamp. Levels and hue/sat. Darkened felt background to flat black. Slight USM, resize for web.
First challenge shot with the new Tamron 28-75.
The Old Violin
by Maurice Francis Egan
Though tuneless, stringless, it lies there in dust,
Like some great thought on a forgotten page;
The soul of music cannot fade or rust,—
The voice within it stronger grows with age;
Its strings and bow are only trifling things—
A master touch! its sweet soul wakes and sings.
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Really effective use of lighting and isolating the subject from the background. Cropping is very, very tight, but I think it suits this photo very well.
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