Guitar Macro C&C

trishw78

If nobody minds either giving me a little advise or some C&C Pretty Please
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Ok so 1 is of a Rose on the back of the head that I'd never really noticed before.

2 and 3 are the same shot only obviously but one was converted to B&W

Thirdfox

I really like the third one - abstract geometric shapes

Third_Echelon

Yeah, third one is the best... Colour sets it apart from the others. Nice and rich..

AnCatDubh

I like them generally but just a few thoughts (and they are only thoughts - don't take as gospel);

#1 is probably nice but the machine head (? cog) at the top of the image is distracting when you are only seeing part of it - causes the eye to wonder what the rest of it is like and what its attached to, and... more or less the context of it. As you probably don't want to dissemble the guitar, your options are probably to get a bit further out (not quite as macro), or to crop below the machine head, which at a guess you could get away with. Then again the machine head cog gives it some context that at least guitar people should / would have an educated guess as to what its from. Have you post processed in some blur or is it all depth of field? If at it again i'd try to widen the depth of field if possible to see the 'rose' in equal sharpness (just to see what it might look like) - i like the metal / silver / steel effect of the decoration - then again the 'depth of field' might be a worn guitar head ;o)

While #2 and #3 are interesting in the geometry stakes, i'm not quite sure about them. I'm not sure if this is it but because the rosette and the strings and sound hole are rather plain, the focal point combined with the shallow depth of field leaves little recognisable in focus (not quite sure if that's quite explained my point; hope you can make some sense of it) - fair enough if this is the desired effect but i wonder do you need a little more in focus??? Nicer in colour though to my eye.

Cheers.

trishw78

AnCatDubh wrote:

Have you post processed in some blur or is it all depth of field? If at it again i'd try to widen the depth of field if possible to see the 'rose' in equal sharpness (just to see what it might look like) - i like the metal / silver / steel effect of the decoration - then again the 'depth of field' might be a worn guitar head ;o)

I think it's the DOF I noticed it. when I was rotating it, after I had uploaded it to flickr. It was originately shot as a landscape. For some bizzare reason alot of the shots I've been doing recently are all shot in Ladscape. Must remember to shart shooting in Portrait

TelePaul

I think the problem with a macro lens on an acoustic (or is it a classical? they look like classical tuners) is that there's very little by way of texture; perhaps too little by way of texture juxtaposed with the mundane, which is what i think makes a great macro shot (Like a shot focusing on both a flowers petal and stigma, for example...sorry if I'm not explaining this very well!)

Thinking about it, I'm not sure where you could shoot on the guitar to create a sense of contrast. Perhaps starting at the bridge pins and looking down the fret-board? Or if your string ends are still coiled through the machien head, maybe they could stand out.

Think I'll try some instrument shots later.

dazftw

3rd one is best, colour suits it more than B&W.