The assignment said: The 5 Browns are five siblings, all piano virtuosos. They have just written a book about their life.

I made the safe shot (above), but was more interested in doing something with this room. Here’s the scene:

I shot a series of photos of the room for a composite image. Here is what PhotoShop came up with:

I wasn’t happy at all with the PhotoShop version so I dumped it and started from scratch, cutting down on the number of images and emphasizing the art on the wall:

I really like the greenish pillow in that version (above), but I tightened everything up and sent this one in to the paper: