Guitar Player

TonyCooper

At the Yearling restaurant in Cross Creek, there was a guitar
player and blues singer entertaining the lunch crowd.

He was so strongly backlit by the windows that a good photograph was
impossible, and flash seemed disruptive and rude. So, I did the best I
could and went for this:

FlyNavy

Nice shot.

Richard

I agree. Interesting how expressive a hand can be. I wonder whether you could bring out a little more detail in top and especially in the musician's left hand. Definitely looks like the blues, which I like.

TonyCooper

Richard wrote: »

I agree. Interesting how expressive a hand can be. I wonder whether you could bring out a little more detail in top and especially in the musician's left hand. Definitely looks like the blues, which I like.

Thanks, Richard, but the detail you speak of at the top
and on the left hand was intentionally removed in the
processing. It's an effect similar to a vignette where
parts of the image are whited out, or blackened out, but
- in this case - faded out.

In the original, I captured the entire guitar player and
instrument. However, the backlighting, and background,
was such I didn't see a way to work with it. So, I cropped
down to just what you see and faded the edges.

I'm posting a couple of images of a truck (Faded Glory) with
a similar post-processing technique. In all three, I used Nik
software to remove detail at the edges using Control Points.

I'm trying to work "out of the box" by trying some new
techniques. Not everyone will like the results.

Tony

Earache

Great subject and image - I agree with Richard and would like to see more (entire) left hand.