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Love it! That is quite a beautiful headstock.

Tell me about it!

Much nicer looking than my handwriting!

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

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.

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.

crawlspacestefan wrote: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.

crawlspacestefan wrote: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!

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.