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Rhythm & Blues Smash Hit! "She Done Broke My Guitar, My Head, and My Heart"
Rhythm & Blues Smash Hit! "She Done Broke My Guitar, My Head, and My Heart"
JohnLampkin


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Rhythm III (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D80
Lens: Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D
Location: Rockland County, New York
Date: Jul 20, 2007
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Humorous, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jul 21, 2007

After several false starts, I was elated to find this guitar which had been left out in the rain at an abandoned campsite on a moutain top. I knew there had to be a heartbreak story there! The repeated rhythms of the frets and strings seemed a perfect fit for the challenge, so I brought it home and set up a shot to show them to best advantage in a humorous, punny way. Used two extractions in RAW at different settings. Selective USM & blur, replace color, border.

Statistics
Place: 129 out of 159
Avg (all users): 5.1935
Avg (commenters): 5.5714
Avg (participants): 4.8431
Avg (non-participants): 5.4384
Views since voting: 1435
Views during voting: 207
Votes: 124
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/29/2007 11:12:11 PM
Sorry about the guitar ;-) Good idea. Background colors don't seem to enhance the guitar but detract from it.
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07/29/2007 11:08:33 PM
A selective saturation on the guitar strings in a gradient of 'blues' would have gotten 2 more point on this from me...(6)
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07/29/2007 07:37:06 PM
The background (blue one especially) - a bad choice of color. Something darker with more light on the guitar corpse would be better IMO.
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07/27/2007 08:15:12 AM
you didn't do that just to get a picture, did you?
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07/25/2007 03:13:58 AM
Broken rhythm but good photo for challenge...
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07/23/2007 11:54:40 PM
The only strong repeating patterns here are the strings and the frets, both of which come across as being entirely incidental to the shot. The smashed body of the guitar draws the eye and keeps it there, leaving the patterns to beat out a rhythm which goes unheard.
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07/23/2007 08:15:05 AM
I do hope you didn't smash this just for this rhythm challenge.....Clever idea.....
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