Okay, so I much prefer Andrew’s. But I woke up this morning and Kyle’s guitar amp was the first thing I saw. “That’d make a good photo,” I thought.

I don’t know what to make of it, though. I always envisioned it as something that would be a good picture at a concert, lit by various stage lighting. In this case, it was lit by light coming in through the window, and the shot would essentially have been black and white.

So I wonder what to make of my modifications. If I told you that I set up two slave flashes, one with a blue gel over it, and one with a red filter over it, and positioned them on opposite sides of the amp, you’d think I was a really advanced photographer, going to great lengths to create a good shot. But I’m a college student with no external flash, much less two radio slaves with colored gels I can slip in. So I used Photoshop to add in some colored lighting effects, and dialed the opacity down to make it more subtle. I also applied some very “broad” sharpening, because the “Jay” was initially thrown too far out of focus. It’s still not nearly as good as I’d like, but the outline’s better.

So the net result, I think, is that it conceivably looks like a shot taken at a concert, or something else interesting, versus something taken of my roommate’s guitar amp on the floor on a sunny morning. But part of me thinks it’s “wrong” to go that far in Photoshop.