About the Image(s)

I took this while working on a wood project in my shop in my basement. The tool is a spoke shave designed to round out spokes from square stock. I was caught by the wood shavings as I worked the wood. I deliberately left the ends out of focus in order to draw the eye to the center occupied by the spoke shave.

I used a D800 with a Nikkor AF 35-70 f/2.8 lens. The lens was set to f/2 at 760mm. The camera was set to aperture priority f/2.8, ISO800, for 1/125 sec., hand held. I did some basic post processing in LR, then converted it to monochrome in Silver Efex Pro. I used a Full Spectrum preset (017) and chose a film type ISO32 Kodak Panatomic X. Back in LR it did some further tweaking of lighting, and finally into PSCC to resize the image and save it as a JPG file.