I had a couple of ideas for this challenge, but they didn't pan out. Then I remembered the piano! The insides of our upright piano are quite cool looking, I think. One little shop light to the right.
Shot in RAW: adjusted white balance and exposure
PS:
No Crop!
NI
A little dodge and burn here and there
Curves
Selective Color (blackened up the blacks a bit)
Channel Mixer (for B/W conversion)
Brightness/Contrast (bumped the contrast a bit)
Photo Filter (warming filter 85 at 30%, preserve luminosity)
Resize
USM
Save for Web
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I didn´t vote in this challenge but would probably have joined the majority and voted this a 6. I really like the tonal range in the shot, think you did a great job with the b/w conversion, nice work. The composition and DOF are also very good. Frankly the only reason why I wouldn´t vote higher is that I have seen so many similar photos that photos like this don´t really visually interest me as much as they used to do but technically speaking this photo is very well done.
I also would not have gotten what this was a photo off had I been voting as I don´t recognize the subject and "Con Calore" doesn´t mean anything to me :) Don´t know if this hurt or helped your score, just thought I´d mention it.
I think one thing about the composition could be improved if you cropped out the two pegs at the bottom left half, I put my figer over that part of the screen and the photo seemed much more clean cut and simple, think that would have improved the shot, but that´s it.
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