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| Author: | Andy Zimmerman [ Tue May 16, 2006 11:10 am ] |
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Lance asked me to post some photos of the Auction Winning John Mayes photo shoot. Well John just sent me some samples. I sent him my little travel parlor guitar. He took some off center so I could ad text next for advertising etc. The selection is only just a few. AMAZING work...the photos...not the guitar. Andy 
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| Author: | Bill Greene [ Tue May 16, 2006 11:13 am ] |
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Whoa. Beautiful guitar, and amazing shots. John is multi-talented, that's for sure. |
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| Author: | Bobc [ Tue May 16, 2006 11:38 am ] |
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Beautiful, Beautiful both the pic's and the guitar. The talent found here never ceases to amaze me. Simply spectacular. 
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| Author: | KyleC [ Tue May 16, 2006 12:02 pm ] |
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that is a beautiful guitar! i cant wait to see the pics of my guitar john. 
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| Author: | Serge Poirier [ Tue May 16, 2006 12:11 pm ] |
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As everyone else has said, awesomes pics and awesome guitar!
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| Author: | CarltonM [ Wed May 17, 2006 7:29 am ] |
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Great advertising...for both of you!
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| Author: | paul harrell [ Wed May 17, 2006 8:58 am ] |
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It's nice that John's talents got used on such a beautiful instrument. Paul |
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| Author: | burbank [ Wed May 17, 2006 9:24 am ] |
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[QUOTE=azimmer1] AMAZING work...the photos...not the guitar. [/QUOTE] I'm afraid I must disagree with part of your statement, Andy. It actually is an amazing guitar. I'm working on a Terz and hope it's only half as nice when it's done. Great work, John. Lighting is especially nice. It shows when a photographer knows his/her subject, especially you being a builder. Did you use a polarizer on any of them? |
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Wed May 17, 2006 10:58 am ] |
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[QUOTE=burbank] [QUOTE=azimmer1] AMAZING work...the photos...not the guitar. [/QUOTE] Great work, John. Lighting is especially nice. It shows when a photographer knows his/her subject, especially you being a builder. Did you use a polarizer on any of them?[/QUOTE] Thanks guys. And no I did not use my polarizer. I normally do but when I took a few shots on this guitar with it the woods color and contrast really died, and looked lifeless. So I just adjusted my lights the best I could to avoid any large reflections on the back and such. |
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| Author: | peterm [ Wed May 17, 2006 11:31 am ] |
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Thats a great job....bothe the pics and the guitar! John do you use a Nikon? You mentioned in another post what you use...just curious.
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Wed May 17, 2006 11:46 am ] |
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Nope I have a Olympus E-500 with a couple different lenses (and a MAcro Lens in my sights soon), a few filters, some seamless paper, and some softbox lights.. |
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| Author: | peterm [ Wed May 17, 2006 12:00 pm ] |
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The lights are the major part I'm sure... The camera plays a big role but you gotta be able to get the lights and reflection just right!!
John, what kind of softbox lights do you use? |
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| Author: | Colby Horton [ Wed May 17, 2006 12:30 pm ] |
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It's all good!! Amazing workmanship on the guitar. The photo work is incredible. |
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| Author: | Ray L [ Wed May 17, 2006 2:47 pm ] |
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John, you have a nice eye for composition. Just a couple of thoughts - I don't know what kind of polarizer filter you have, but you need to make sure it is a good one that really is "neutral" in color balance (most aren't). The only one that I can recommend is a B&W, they are really expensive, but worth it. When we used to photograph large items with a lot of reflective surfaces, we used a film in front of the lights that was suppossed to be polarizing - I don't remember who makes this, or what it was called, but it was very effective for reducing reflections (We used try not to use filters in front of our lenses in the old days). If you are interested, I'll find out for you what that film was. Ray |
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| Author: | John Mayes [ Wed May 17, 2006 3:47 pm ] |
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yeah I'd love to know. I have a Hoya HMC polarizing filter. Cost me about $70...I'll look into the B&W and yeah find out what the film was... every bit helps! |
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