I’m adding a five string banjo to the list of instruments I’ve shot for this project. This one hangs on the wall at the Urban Ecology Center just down the road from our house where they have quite a collection of stringed instruments. Hanging next to it is also a guitar, a mandolin, and ukulele all hanging around ready to be played. While I’ve never actually seen this played, it certainly looks….well-used.
And it was the texture of the wear and tear on head behind the strings that caught my eye initially. Then I noticed the complimentary colors from the various light sources. So to ensure maximum dynamic range, I shot 5 bracketed exposures and created a 32-bit file. In processing, I enhanced both the color and textures of the banjo and rotated the image 90 degrees clockwise from the way it was shot to make the strings horizontal.
Day 348 of my 365 photo a day project.
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