Melody

Do you ever come home from work and suddenly lose all your energy? That's how I felt today, and my subsequent effort to shoot something interesting suffered. I took a few shots of my brother's old guitar that's at my house, but it needed jazzing up, so I spent some time editing it in post-processing.

I added a layer because frankly the photo was boring without it. It's combined with an image of some tattered old sheet music, and I think it makes the photo a lot better. The shadow is real though!

I watched a documentary I'd recorded on Sky+ a while ago yesterday. It was about the official White House photographer, and his work taking photos of the Obama Administration. If you're interested, you can see the official White House photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/

[Teresa (pocketmouse)]

That is me every day! It's a struggle sometimes. I like how this turned out with the texture layer. I like the lighting in the original photo, too.

[Jeff Drongowski]

Fantastic processing on this one. Really elevates the whole piece.

[TPiix]

Love this photo so much, i need to start adding tectured layers in, makes stuff amazing :-)

And, i watched that like 2days ago too, had it recorded on foxtel hehe. Good show huh ;-)

[Lisa]

This turned out very nice! I think the added texture definitely completes it!

[Kirsty McLaughlan]

I really like this. Love the texture

[Hannah Sparks]

i love this!

[LiftWithYourSoul]

I love this shot; the texture is wonderful

[melissa]

Great processing! I am a huge fan of worn looking guitars, I can't help but think of the stories that they've told.

[Jessica Lynn]

Great job on the music in the background it's really eye catching. Love it!

[flynstigator]

Great addition of the sheet music texture! I like the close-up of the guitar with the shadow to the left. Nice!

[Rebecca Doyle]

LOVE the music layer - inspiring :)

[Cynthia C.]

Beautiful pic! Love the processing.

[Jo Ann B]

love the layering...and thanks for the link!

[Susan (north star)]

Awesome shot.

[Rudi Teruel]

love the texture and the color tone... very nice composition, as always, vik.....

[jerry plume]

terrific shot!

[aikiuser (jenn)]

Brilliant!!!

[Juliette Packham]

awesome processing.

[Pamela Mandeville]

Beautiful! One of my favorite guitar pictures - and there have been a lot lately :) Love the added texture and especially the shadow.

[SHARON ZADANOFF]

I really like this! simple beauty.....and so much more! sometimes less is more!

[Haley Otto]

This is awesome! Great colors!

[Christine Hamrick]

I think this one is really nice - I like the shadow and the texture layer.