072/365 – Such Sweet Compulsion
Image by djwtwo
Another Monday without a decent opportunistic shot, which means another musical instrument. This time, it’s the piano, inherited from my wife’s family, a Milton manufactured by Kohler and Campbell, probably in the first half of the 20ᵀᴴ century. Someday, someone in the house might learn to play it well—I can only poke out a few simple tunes myself since I only really read guitar tabs and not actual musical notation. Thing One is interested, though.
I wasn’t really sure how to shoot this one. I played with a lot of keyboard-as-leading-lines, with shallow DoF, but all the shots felt clichéd. I finally settled on this straight-on composition, with the brand visible and the keys in the lower third. I was trying to work just with ambient room light, which may not have been the best choice, but it wasn’t too horrible.
Nikon D7000 w/Nikkor 18-200 @ 42mm, 8 sec. @ ƒ/8, ISO100. Ambient lighting. Some color tweaks and a vignette applied in Aperture.
(The title is from John Milton’s Arcades: "Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.")
