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ChiyoDad -> RE: Seller on eBay using my guitar photos (Sep. 2 2008 6:29:32)
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Thanks for the replies. I actually got emails from people asking me if I was selling my guitar since they had read my blog and recognized the images.
It is misleading to use another person's images rather than to use an image of the actual item. eBay recognizes these issues and that's why they set-up the Verified Rights Owner program. It happened to me before with another guitar that I owned and reviewed.
It's different if a seller uses stock photography (like from Yamaha's website) and stock photos are often easy to recognize because they sometimes have an air-brushed "perfect" look. eBay sometimes provides these from their product database and clearly labels them as "Stock Photo".
Regarding "looking the same", the answer is (surprisingly [:D]) no. Depending on the resolution of the images, the actual item that they buyer receives may look notably different from the photo. There were two Yamaha CG171SF's at Guitar Center over the weekend and one was notably less-attractive than the other; it had bookmatched dark "dimples" in the wood grain. That guitar has been hanging on Guitar Center's wall for more than two months.
The internal photos were taken by using the "Macro" mode in my digital camera. I just set the camera into that mode, loosened the strings of my guitar, placed the camera into the soundhole, pushed the shutter-button and let the auto-focus feature do all the work. Tilting the camera up gets a nice shot of the bracing. Rotating the camera with each shot will give you a panoramic view of the inside of the guitar. You can also just shoot photos from just outside the soundhole as long as there is room for the flash to penetrate.
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