Poster Image

1.     Piano 24 x 36

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Keys: 1/15/2011 9:10 am; 1/15; f/2.8; Flash did not fire; Canon Powershot 570 IS; La Jolla Lounge

Strings: 1/15/2011 9:32 am; 1/14; f/3.2; Flash did not fire; Canon Powershot 570 IS; La Jolla Lounge

Snow: 1/14/2011 4"27 pm; 1/100; f/4.0; Flash did not fire; Canon Powershot 570 IS; Rexburg, Idaho

4. Exposure, hues, sats, levels, sharpened fill layer.

5. To create this photo I blended three photos together and used the overlay-blending mode in Photoshop. Later, I added a brown fill layer to add the sepia feel. Where the light hit the black keys it printed really, really blue. I added some adjustment layers and adjusted the exposure, hues, sats and levels. Then I used the brush tool with white paint to paint the edits in. I played around with a burned border, but with the dark color on the left upper corner it looked better without it.  I finished by added a sharpening filter. Printing this image was not much short of a nightmare! It came out purple the first time and then the super blue light on the keys caught my eye. After going in and doing some minor edits it came out how I wanted. I selected this photo because I feel inspired by piano music and thoroughly enjoy playing it.