I was really excited about this challenge since my husband is a musician! He has guitars ALL OVER the house, ’bout makes me sick. There is a full keyboard. A snare drum, picks, drum sticks, brushes (for the drum), guitar straps, hard cases and gig bags, a speaker….you name it, we may have it. (Actually, just between you and me, all that music was one of the reasons I married him. I knew my home would always have music in it and I wanted that badly for myself and my family.) But even will all that equipment at my disposal, I wanted to take a slightly different approach to this challenge.
Despite it being a still life challenge (meaning, no human interaction, please) a human ear was necessary to make the image I wanted to create. So I blurred the lines of the rules a little. I hope that’s okay. My husband is not only a musician but he is fully capable of editing the music he creates after it has been recorded. I am usually not interested in this process but something that has always captivated me when he is editing are the colors the wave forms and spectograms display in. THAT is what I instantly wanted to photograph when I read this challenge.
I also maybe went a little overboard playing with some of my editing options to really pump some vibrance and saturation into those colorful lines on the screen. I really hadn’t planned how I wanted to edit the image, beyond the crop, before taking it. So I sat there staring at if for a little bit. And then the vibrance of the colors and the shape in which I had edited it hit me. It’s sort of like a comic book. So I really pumped up the vibrance & saturation which darkend up the foreground to the right nicely and sort of…, cartoonized (<–is this even a real word?) it. I. LOVE. IT. It’s dark and saturated, a look I have moved away from in favor of brighter images in most of my work. But this image works with it; actually, it almost guided the editing process itself.
