Probe lenses and focus stacking: the secrets to incredible photos taken inside instruments

Photo: Charles Brooks The photo above may look like a city or some sort of industrial plant, but it's not: it's actually the inside of a pipe organ, photographed by Charles Brooks. It's one of the many pictures he's taken from the inside of musical instruments, a process that's substantially more complicated than it may seem, especially since he's often working with rare, historically significant objects. Charles Brooks spent much of his career as a principal cellist, traveling to perform with r...