_03/08/10_ Drum Man I didn't notice the figure painted on the drum until I started photographing it. Looks kind of like the Pearl Jam stick figure, no? Anyways, this is a drum we have at our house - it's fun. I set my aperture to f/1.4 to get the super-shallow depth of field so the blue man was in focus and the rear drum was fuzzy. I used a black cloth for the background and bounced my flash off the ceiling. I did some pretty extreme editing in Lightroom, but I think it still looks pretty organic. The main adjustments were moving the blacks slider way up and the vibrance way down to counteract the contrast. [last year]

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