This is a photo I took a while back.

It's a composite done in camera with two exposures.

The first exposure was taken of a guitar machine head (or whatever that's called) with a macro-takumar 50mm F/4 lens on a tripod with continuous lights on either side of the guitar.

The second exposure was taken of some Christmas lights hanging from my door jam with an SMC 55mm F/1.8. I cut a circle of card stock with the shape of a note in the center and defocused the image to get the note-shaped bokeh.

Both shots were on manual so it took some experimentation to get the exposure right.

Once I had the image, I improved the contrast in Lightroom but the editing was fairly light.

[Apet-Sure]

As a guitar player, I gotta vote for this one. Nice concept.

[rweinholdt]

Unique approach.

[dbrunton]

Nominate