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Ruphus -> RE: "Luthiers share your creations" thread (Feb. 3 2015 11:16:40)
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A beautiful redhead!
Spoiled through the beauties in the foro, I try imagening how such design would attract my eye if spotted midst the stock of a store. It helps with fully appreciating the aesthetics.
Andy,
First of all congrats, as I assume these shots to have been taken in your new place. (I am jelous!)
Why don´t you build yourself a small / little visible support to hold the guitar for pics? Like say an angle iron on the tip of a triangular base plate. With the angle iron inside covered with rubber for grip.
Such should leave you with either no support visible or with only very little to be seen which could be photoshopped away very easily.
Further, as you are interested in progressing with photography / images, maybe experiment a bit with light. (Common lights will do if positioned to demand and / or be covered with paper / textiles for defuse.)
Daylight can do really great as well. ( I mostly prefer it.) For object photography countering with a mirror ( which again can be covered with something translucent if needed) can yield very nicely.
Only little versed with graphical manipulation ( apart from a little tinkering in Correl Draw many years ago, and from occasionally touching up photos in Canon´s SW - which can be really nice (now in DPP4 with all parameters availabe and even digital correction of your individual lens)- I started exploring Photoshop lately. And despite of my disliking of Adobes policies and spywares I have to admit that their PS really is the shizznizz. So intuitive and intelligently designed, a masterpiece of a tool.
Once you got the details covered in the photography you can manipulate your pics in any way desired.
As an example this crazy sun set that we had some 2 weeks or so ago. In need for a suiting object I chose a photo of one of my doggies, which however had been taken during midday with entirely different light.
In PPS I lend the dog some blue "skyish" light from the front, some shadow at the belly and hard hitting red sun light from the back.
And it was fun fiddling with it.
You may not have the time for diving into PS, but maybe your wife might be interested if she has a spare minute here or there(?)
For folks who enjoy visuals editing graphics can be a true blast.
If none of you have the time, I think to have an old little JPG program from Canon that I could try sending to you. It is very easy to learn, yet extremely versatile even for graphical editing, if the user only realizes that yet in conjunction all available parameters remain under your fingertips / thus allowing for nearly any operation desired.
Ruphus
PS:
While talking this stuff; for PS users: Know that there is a new plugin out since December which allows loading of RAW files. ( Name: "DNGConverter_8_7_1.exe")
Images are resized automatically to a maximum width of 800px
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