I've always thought that there was something really romantic about a well-played song on a good acoustic guitar.I started playing the guitar when I was in 2nd year HS (that would make it around year 2000?), primarily to impress girls. It might sound so low now, and it never did work, but I really am glad of the experiences I've had because of my guitar spin-offs.
Right now, I'm also venturing into electric guitars ('cause, as I found out a good while later, acoustics and electrics really take on a different set of disciplines), and various forms of percussion. So far, I'd say that my fingers really work best on an acoustic.
I took this picture on a timer shot, without a tripod (gosh, I really wish now that I bought one of those gorillapods™ when I was in Japan!) on ISO80 with a yellow lamp right on the guitar. Slightly minimal photo manipulation: cropping off of some parts of the photo into black, a bit of leveling and b&c, a bit of tweaking with the hues, and a run through smart sharpening (CS2).
I also toyed around with the idea of a black and white shot, but figured that I've been leaning on b&w too much for my shots lately. Besides, the color one looks a bit fresher and less drab.Tell me what you think. :)
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Don't forget that you can click on the pictures to view the original copies. Somehow, they lose quality when they're resized to fit these blog entries. :p
the colored one looks so much better love :)
ReplyDeleteniiiiice :)
ReplyDeleteThat's not low you know, when I was in highschool, to impress the whole school, I joined the Basketball Girls Varsity team. HAHA. I embarrassed myself for 4 years. Hell yes, I played for 4 years. WTF. I was guard and point guard, I swear, I don't know why they kept me in the team XD
ReplyDeleteAnd I think this shot of you with the guitar is really nice. I like the effect with the colored one, but ofcourse, we all know, I love the black and white one better, cause black and white is the way to go for me. HAHA!
@leechunsa,
ReplyDeleteyeah, i still keep those sample b&w shots you girls took of OM from intramuros pa. hahaha :p it shuffles in my screensaver slideshow. LOL.
and you played basketball to impress girls too? wtf. :p