Pickin'

[clayhaus]

I shot a concert put on by a rocking bluegrass group (does that sound odd?) called Hot Butter Rum and was able to get close in with my 200mm to the various musicians. I wanted just the guitar and his hand/arm in this image, so did a bit of burning to achieve what I wanted.

[daq7]

Rock Bluegrass? No. Damnations TX fit that description.

Fairly nice concert shot. The light is very nice. Good composition. The copyright text is annoying and superfluous....

[Overbeyond]

Clayhaus;
Really good and unusual viewpoint. I think you got a cracking result here. How far were you from the subject?
How anyone can be 'annoyed' by you little bit of text is beyond me.

[jetrim]

The tight DoF really works well here. I do think the ambient light is a bit too yellow though, and I'd consider a white balance adjustment.

I'm no music genious, but I'm pretty sure that Guitar is actually a Dobro

The copyright text is annoying and superfluous....

Huh??????

[clayhaus]

Here is another shot taking a minute or so later clearly showing that the picker was also slidin'. And, yes, i believe that it is a dobro he was working upon.

I have left out the "annoying" watermark as well. I looked back many of my previous posts and I have always placed a watermark in the image, which is more or less a general rule of mine. But I also understand that for the purpose of critiquing, watermarks should not be applied to images.

[Greg McCary]

I like the original much better. Nothing to say but way to go on that one. Yes that is a Dobro. The out of focus hand on the second one is just to distracting.

[armando_m]

the first picture is great,
really like how the details of the guitar get lost into blackness,
the floating arm is kind of odd though

[Grandpaw]

I agree with Greg! I like the first one much better, Jeff