Ebony And Ivory by stray_shooter

Ebony And Ivory

I'm pretty sure the piano keys here are not really ebony and ivory. It's a cheap upright piano, and ivory is banned, so according to my in depth research, i.e., looking it up on Wikipedia, it's most likely that the "ivory" keys are made of a type of plastic referred to as "ivorite" and the "ebony" keys are spruce or basswood. Unfortunately, Spruce and Ivorite is not something that I think Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney would have favored for their lyrics. Doesn't roll off the tongue quite the same.
Lovely mellow image! Beautiful point of focus! Now play me a tune! Fav!
February 8th, 2017  
Ebony and ivory certainly sounds better - and they definitely go together in harmony :)
February 8th, 2017  
So simple yet so effective. Very nice focus and dof
February 8th, 2017  
Beautiful DOF
February 8th, 2017  
Wonderful image
February 8th, 2017  
Lovely shot and I like the dof you choose here. :)
February 8th, 2017  
Great point of focus with a wonderful shallow depth of field a well constructed image Ron:)
February 8th, 2017  
For some strange reason, I like this shot. And @gilbertwood left out the "perfect"
February 8th, 2017  
@terryliv Sorry! I'm not always perfect :)
February 8th, 2017  
Oh I miss hearing the piano of the house I grew up in. Lovely shot - the colours are great
February 8th, 2017  
Ah, it's just semantics! (A rose by any other name ... ) What you DO have here is a smashingly beautiful image! A+ 100% (that means, Fave!)
February 9th, 2017  
it doesn't matter that they are not 'true' - it is the resulting image that is of more pressing concern. great PoV and love the, almost, non-existent DoF...
February 9th, 2017  
Great image.
February 10th, 2017  
@pamknowler @gilbertwood @salza @tigerdreamer @photographycrazy @novab @pcoulson @terryliv @gilbertwood @naomi @Weezilou @jorlam @pickerandagrinner Thanks all for the kind words on my piano keys. Many commented on the depth of field, and I probably shouldn't admit this, but it was pretty much out of necessity. I was shooting in a poorly lit room and in order to get the proper exposure I had to go pretty much full wide. To be honest I was attempting to get a shot with greater depth of field, but it just wouldn't work at the ISO and shutter speed that I needed. Oops!!
February 11th, 2017  
@stray_shooter You confess too much! We loved it!
February 11th, 2017  
The D750 can withstand pretty high ISO. Perhaps if you wanted more depth of field you could have employed that. What you ended up with is nevertheless a wonderful image.
February 11th, 2017  
Great shot.
February 12th, 2017  
Really nice use of DoF for this shot.
March 19th, 2017  
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