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Hi all

Here's one I strung up on the weekend.
Pau Ferro with a black topped Cedar.
Ebony binding, fretboard and bridge and my first bevel.
Still needs a bit of set-up work.

As you can see from the photos, I'm having a bit of trouble photographing the black top. You can see my legs reflecting in the picture. Anyone have any advise on how to get a better shot?

Thanks
Neil

Nice Neil!
I like everything about that one.
Nice peghead inlay, rose, bridge, bevel.
It's got it all going on!!

Beautiful thing!

You can photograph through a hole in the center of a black cloth (or another non-reflecting "surface" ) with sides that measure at least the double of the "sides" of the object to be photographed (in this case twice as high and twice as wide as the guitar or at least the guitar body). Works perfectly, I have done this when I had to take pictures of glass framed paintings in an art gallery (for a high gloss magazine).

P.S.
I forgot to say: if you take pictures from the side (not frontally), the cloth must be much bigger or you must hang up some more cloths where the reflections come from.

Nice looking guitar Neil. Did you shoot the black top?

Tim

The black cloth trick will work. Also, if you take your pics in a darkened room, with lighting only on the guitar and not you, you'll be too dimly lit to appear in the reflection. It helps too if the area behind you is a dark color, and the background behind the guitar doesn't throw too much light back at you. You'd need to have your flash turned off too.

In this particular situation, a black tripod would have helped, using a remote release or delayed release. The grass would have shown up, and possibly the tripod a little bit.

Nice guitar!

Pat

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Very nice. at first I thought the top faded from dark orange in the upper bout to black on the lower. Kind of a sun burst that is shifted shifted up.
Please do me a favor and trim the strings.

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Sweet guitar!
Doncha gots any black jeans?

Trim the strings, +1.

Beautiful guitar!

Francis

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