Practicing

[crawlspacestefan]

All the components of my solitary study:

[sloop_john_b]

Love it! That is quite a beautiful headstock.

[crawlspacestefan]

Tell me about it!

Much nicer looking than my handwriting!

[jimk]

Nice photo. It rather reminds me of an updated version of those 18th Century genre paintings.
JimK

[grygrx]

I like it, but I think it might be a tad too yellow with that grain... maybe more brown? I'd probably crop it to get the out of focus part of the neck out too.

[crawlspacestefan]

Adam,

All the things you don't like about it are the things I added! Haha!

I took it on my iPhone, and I added the effects (both the vintage colouring and the focus) with a social networking photography app called Instagram.

[jps]

Adam,

All the things you don't like about it are the things I added! Haha!

I took it on my iPhone, and I added the effects (both the vintage colouring and the focus) with a social networking photography app called Instagram.

Yeah, I thought you did some enhancing, very nice concept, too. You do need to do some relic'ing of the headstock to make it even more authentic looking.

[grygrx]

Adam,

All the things you don't like about it are the things I added! Haha!

I took it on my iPhone, and I added the effects (both the vintage colouring and the focus) with a social networking photography app called Instagram.

The focus blur is too 'hard' and looks fake because your camera would never go out of focus right there!

[jps]

Granted that the blurring is not optically generated, but this can be pretty closely approximated with a view camera with generous movements and the right lens, say, a nice late 1800s barrel mounted Petzval lens, for example.