This is not the only thing I could have done for this challenge. It was the easiest. I had this flute just sitting there, so I decided to shoot it. I wish I had more time to perfect it, because I really like the out come, but I didn't.
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Wow, you ended up with a lot of comments here. I like the minimalism in the shot, but it needed a bit better lighting to come off the way you probably wanted it to. Someone pointed out the shadows under the mouthpiece for instance. I'm not an expert with lighting, but trying to light something this wide, maybe reflecting some light upward onto a reflective surface that shined back down on the flute would have worked? These basic editing challenges are much harder because you can't make those fixes in individual spots with the post processing. Go team D50!
As an afterthought... I think this also feels backwards to me, since I would hold the flute with the mouthpiece at the left if I were playing it. Might not make for the keys looking as neat though. Hmm.
The flute in the image is just not bright enough to compensate for all the dark negative space above it. It's a neat idea, but better lighting is probably needed to make this work really well.
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