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dewmanna [2004-11-05 02:28:06 +0000 UTC]

Whoa someone wrote an essay for you.
hahaha. nice shot.

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Fon2d2 [2004-11-04 14:22:22 +0000 UTC]

I have often thought of doing a shot like this, but the conditions have never really been favorable to how I would like it to look.
The pic seems really dark, like the keys go off fading into the black.
It's a nice effect, like this keyboard is your entire world.
I'm wondering what kind of lighting you used. It seems like the light source is above and behind you. Did you use a flash? I don't really see the glare from it, unless that's it right at the frontmost keys. Perhaps you used one but pointed it upward? You seem really close to the keys but I'm guessing perhaps you also used a zoom lens. However you did it, the effect works pretty well except for one thing. Notice how the light is coming in at an angle from the right side of the keyboard? It catches the edges of the keys and illuminates them more brightly than the rest of the picture. This would be only a little bit too much contrast if it weren't for those corners next to every black key. Notice how every black key has a bright white corner on its left edge? It disrupts the way the photograph fades into the background.
Still nice work though.

The way I've always wanted to do this kind of picture is with the sunlight reflecting (glinting?) off the keys, so maybe kind of the opposite effect yours went for? I'm not really sure. My parents used to have this old piano. I had it right up against a window in my room before I moved out. Bad I know but the piano was cheap. When you sat at it the window was to your right. Sometimes, at the right time of day, the sun would shine in and reflect off the entire keyboard. It looked really cool, especially at the right angle. I've always thought that would be a cool photograph, but I only recently got into photography.

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