During the holidays, three gentlemen from Russia played classical music - on accordians. And they were awesome! Since they set up shop across from the Starbucks in Wiesbaden, I had the good fortune to hear them more than once.
Converted to B&W with channel mixer, very slight curves adjustment, crop, sharpen, a touch of Neat Image, bit o' bright/contrast, and resize for web.
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Place: 263 out of 488 Avg (all users): 5.4833 Avg (commenters): 5.6667 Avg (participants): 5.4046 Avg (non-participants): 5.6939 Views since voting: 856 Views during voting: 246 Votes: 180 Comments: 12 Favorites: 0
What a nice B&W exposure! I can almost hear the accordion, and the technicals are spot on, save a little over exposure in some portions. The striking textures and detail on the accordion boost this up 2 points from mediocrity to a 7. I like looking at this capture!
Deb,
I'm surprised this one didn't score higher. I gave it an 8. I think you did very well with the tonal range, and I like the crop. Another great photo!
Another Melethia urban delight! I missed this because try as I might, I didn't finish voting on all the photos in this big challenge, but I sure would have voted it higher than 5.4! It just makes me want to be there listening outside to the music going on in the street.
In my opinion either you keep the head in the shot or you crop in tight to get just the musical instrucment. Having a headless person is a bit disconcerting.
It's a proper instrument, the button accordion - there are things you can play on one of those that you can't play on anything else. I don't think this is a great photograph - it's OK, but it lacks the elements that would make it more than a simple illustration of an instrument.
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