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nico-blue — Viola Study No. 2
Published: 2004-09-20 16:28:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1289; Favourites: 49; Downloads: 88
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Picture of my friend Cally (who rocks at viola) practicing.I did the selective desaturation in PS, and the black and white parts are slightly duotoned.
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It's so preeeeeeeeeeeety, sweeeeeeeeeet, beeeeeeeeautiful, and every beautiful word in the world. I like viola (and cello, harph, guitar and percussion). But, i can't play it ( i play, guitar, and percussion)
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beatiful color of the wood on the scroll, I wish I had a dark color viola TT-TT. I love playing it though!
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Yay for the vlas! Vlas rock! (Can you tell what I play? hmm...it's a toughie...)
Nice angle and good placement to catch the hand.
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This is a niiice picture. I'm also a violist, and I have to agree, this is a beautiful pic.. and I also love the pegs, very pretty.
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Wow that is a great pic, I am also a Viola player
It's a great pic and I like the way it's from a different angle and it really shows off the viola
Not to mention your awesome photoshopping of it
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The viola is so underrated. They beat a violin any day.
Wonderful shot. I like the viola's pegs.
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Omg! I play the viola, this pic is beautiful!! She's playing high second, so...E? Is she playing a E? Can't tell if it's low second or high though...I'm guessing she's good a vibrato? (lol)
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Nice work, very effective use of selective desaturation. I like the angle and composition too. The focal depth also works well, although I'm not sure how much control you have over the aperture settings with a Powershot
What was the lighting set up, did you use a flash?
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yeah I was forced to use the crappy canon G5 built in flash
Im still learning about stuff like aperature, etc, but I wish the dof was a bit deeper now in retrospect.
Thanks a lot for the insightful comment!
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this is fantastic 
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cool, i love this contrasting technique when the b&w is darkened or something similar. Always gives a great effect. Good capture
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great shot! i love the desaturation, but especially like the perspective!
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great use of selective coloring. it really makes the viola the focal point, and then you notice the person playing in the background. i like the bright hands too, it adds a lot of depth and movement to the image.
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Very nice job!
Where in PS is the option to do such a thing? I would normally cut it out... make a new layer... and then make the separate layer b/w. Seems like there is an easier way.
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I use layer masks to cut out the image and have separate layers for the color and the black and white. I dont think its necessarily easier but it gives smoother edge results because you are free to rework the edges over and over without affecting the actual image.
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