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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I'm hopeless at it and I'd really love to know how people get these great photos.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
https://imgur.com/gallery/791F4
https://imgur.com/gallery/791F4
But I am becoming rather irritated by Imgur
2. Clutter. or rather, lack of it. So many people just prop their guitar on the sofa but don't think of the other stuff that's in shot. For these kind of pics you can control everything within the shot, but it's always amazing to see how many people don't bother.
3. Learn the basics of photography and camera control.
a) Blurred backgrounds are controlled by aperture (smaller f-number means more blur). Most cameras let you have some level of control of this without going to full manual mode - look for a mode marked "Ps" or "A". But if you don't get 1 and 2 right, it's a bit irrelevant.
b) controlling your focus can be everything - you want to make sure the right bit of the guitar is in focus, so learn to do that too. Most cameras will let you have either manual focus or move the auto-focus point around.
You don't need a fancy camera at all - my Casino pic above was shot with a 2005 Sony compact, but lit with a skylight on an overcast day, and the sheet thrown over a sofabed got rid of any distractions in the background.
The Paisley one was an Olympus micro four-thirds (nothing special), again all natural light from a window, shot against a dark leather couch, with the camera's aperture opened up to f4.2 to give it a smidge of blur
As you were.
https://imgur.com/gallery/iESke
https://tommysixstring.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/img_0391.jpg?w=971&h=&crop=1
https://tommysixstring.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/img_0394.jpg?w=971&h=&crop=1
Some pro photographer took these:
https://tommysixstring.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/12.jpg
Love the purple here:
https://tommysixstring.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/17.jpg
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