Violin

I had intended to post more pictures of the house this week but it rained over the weekend so I wasn’t able to take any new ones.  Instead, here is a picture of my sweetheart’s violin from my photography group’s weekend assignment.  Beginning Friday evening at 7 o’clock, we were given 24 hours to create images for eight different categories.  Music was one of the catagories and this was my entry.

Since I don’t have a studio or any lighting equipment I had to use what I had on hand.  The backdrop was a black dress and the key light a halogen shop light mounted on a step ladder.  The sheet music acted as a reflector.  My goal was to light the side of the violin to accentuate the vertical motif in the wood.  I also experimented with using the on-camera flash as a fill light but found it wasn’t necessary.  The focus point is on the bridge near the oval hole and the aperture was set at the widest possible opening to achieve a narrow depth of field.