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I had a chance to visit Kamimoto Strings in San Jose's Japantown yesterday. One of the interns on the Web team at SCU works there part-time. She showed the owners my portfolio and they were curious about how I might shoot their shop. I spent about an hour shooting around the shop with the TtV rig, the Lensbaby Composer/Sweet 35 combo, the GF1 and Pinwide, and the E-PL3 with the Oly 17mm 2.8 and Panny 7-14mm f4. I took a few iPhone shots, too. They were pretty busy, and I tried not to get in the way, but I think I captured the essence of their business...
I'd seen the recent suggestion for strings on the Tanglepatterns website, so yesterday lunchtime I pencilled them all onto a piece of A5 Bristol board.
They were great fun! I limited myself to 3 tangles per square and no more than two "fillers"
I especially like Sandra's "Weequash" tangle. Thank you for sharing Sandra "Molossus"! ;@) Fi
String No 1 (top left) - Weequash, Mooka and Petals (don't know the proper name)
String No 2 (top right) - Nzeppel,Fohbraid and Mi2
String No 3 (bottom left) - Paradox and don't know the other two....any info gratefully accepted!
String No 4 (bottom right) - Puf, Sonnenband and Betweed
A5 Bristol board
05 Zig Millenium black
005 Zig Millenium black (for fills)
My best attempt to take a creative shot of my bass guitar with my new speedlites and wescott boxes. As you can see, the guitar's gone unused for a while...
Side lighting, point of interest and contrast of colour against black. Theme is to represent the feel of how acoustic guitars sound visually rather than in stereo.
Title of photo: Strings
Objective 2: Creative Exposure
The camera mode (P, Tv, Av, M) and why I chose it: P, chosen at this time due to the fact that we had not completely gone over other modes.
f stop used: 9.0
shutter speed used: 1/200
ISO used: 200
Exposure compensation: 0EV
Focal length: 18mm
Objective 3: Elements and Principles of Design
The principles of design demonstrated: Unity, balance, contrast
The elements of design demonstrated: Form, Shape, Space, Value/Tone
Objective 4: Lighting
Type of lighting: Diagonal semi-diffused lighting
Objective 5: Post Production (ex. dust/spot removal, contrast, white balance, sharpening, borders, etc.)
Corrections/adjustments made: Curves/contrast upped to make the wood on the guitar more textured and vibrant, showing shadows and the reflection on the surface more vividly-- Fully blacked out the background so the background wouldn't take away from the vibrant guitar, washed out slightly to diffuse the darkness of the black so it wouldn't overpower the guitar's colour, unsharp mask to help make details (such as guitar strings) appear more crisp
Objective 7: Photographic Styles (ex. portrait, landscape, etc.)
Type/style of photography: Still life,
The camera mode (P, Tv, Av, M) and why I chose it: P-- wasn't taught the other modes at this particular time, although having the automatic setting helped keep the guitar in the main focus which was difficult to achieve at this time with any other setting
f stop used: 9.0
shutter speed used: 1/200
ISO used: 200
Exposure compensation: 0EV
Focal length: 18mm
Today I finally decided to head down to Guitar Center and get some more bass strings (if you're a bassist you know this isn't the happiest moment). While I was there I saw and played my future bass (a five string one-piece body Ocean, a guitar center exclusive, extremely well made 700$) that at least lifted my spirits.
Winding new string on for me is so gratifying, it's like getting a new instrument every time you do!
I bought these because I want to record a song this upcoming week for when one of my more recent friends comes over. She has a great singing voice and I want to write a song for her to sing with. I was thinking something around the lines of pop/rock, and David Bowie is a huge influence on me there so you can it expect it to sound similar.
P.S. Check the EXIF data for a laugh :P
Durga Puja in Kolkata
I took this picture in a Puja Pandal in Central Kolkata. The pandal was mostly made of strings and the base material other than string was plaster.
Here I tried to frame the face of the idol through the strings...trying to experiment with framing & DOF.
Available as art print, framed art print and stretched canvas: society6.com/emeses/Strings-Attached-Pd6_Print
I did a photo-shoot for DR Strings a week ago to help them introduce their new and amazing guitar and base strings. These strings are very cool. I posted my 5 favorite photographs from that shoot.
Philip Catherine & strings
@ Roma
Antwerp (B)
Philip Catherine - guitar
Philippe Aerts - double bass
Hans van Oosterhout - drums
Nicola Andrioli – piano
Nicolas Fiszman – guitar, bass guitar
Orchestre Royal De Chambre De Wallonie
conducted by Frank Braley
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We had Thanksgiving at Jean Ritchie's house (www.jeanritchie.com). Her house is like an antiques shop- everywhere you look there are old instruments and interesting things.
the headlining band had strings with parts written out and arranged and everything. what i always wanted. but what i have (improvisation) is nice, too.
Hand made jewelery. Shot this for a friend of mine who makes these lovely delicate yet very beautiful pieces of hand made jewelery.
Simple wintery scene from the harbor.
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