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Hello. Thank you for any CC you can provide me for this image. I

appreciate it!

nice - creative - Looked at your portfolio and I really like your portraits and face study - some beautiful eyes in there

This is an ideal shot for a tilt-shift lens. Then you could have both hands in focus, but the keys slights blurred.

Tilt shift is a good idea.

 

With this lens and composition, the rings become critical. There's tension between them, and I would have liked to have seen the far one removed so the near one would be the clear focal point of the image.

 

The reflection is curious. Looks like a white grand piano with the fallboard lip cutting off the reflection.

 

Just noticed something else. Her hands are posed for your benefit, but it doesn't depict the execution of a real musical passage.

Thank you for your comments Carl, I apprecaite them and I must say I admire your work.

 

I myself am not bothered one bit about the far hand being OOF. I wouldn't change that. I do agree however that the ring on her left hand, takes from the importance of the one on her right hand (the subject), but that is her wedding ring, and would never ask her to remove it. I am more interested in capturing things as they happen, rather then stage them.

 

You are incorrect about the pose however. This was captured while playing. Such an observation would be near impossible to make. There are an infinite amount of hand positions you could capture through even a single composition. Heck, taking the shot at the right spot might even catch their hands completely off they piano... how could you possibly discern that?

She is, in effect, modeling for you, and you get to decide what effect you want, even if it means removing a ring to focus the viewer's attention where you want it, or changing hand position. (It just looked odd to see her knuckle resting against the fallboard.)

 

As is, I'd crop off her left hand ring.

Well, this wasn't a "model" sort of speak where we setup the shot. This is a picture of a friend of mine playing the piano. I guess you could call it more jounalistic then what you are picturing.

 

If I cropped out the left hand, either A) part of the right hand would be cropped off too, leaving a TINY square composition, or B) only a fraction of the left hand would be showing. I think that would be even more distracting either way.

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