Guitar – Studio — Photo production
Product photography in the studio: hand-built electric guitars in detail. A product series of hand-built electric guitars against black. What is photographed is not…
A product series of hand-built electric guitars against black. What is photographed is not the whole instrument but the things that show how it was made: the maple fretboard and its frets, the headstock with the builder's signature burned into it, the pickups in raking light, the marbled body with its f-holes. Lacquered wood and chromed hardware are mirrors — work like this is more about blocking light than adding it.
One frame does show the whole instrument: an electric guitar in violin shape against black, its top in a gray-black figure that reads like water, with a cream binding, two f-holes and two pickups, a maple neck with a pale fingerboard and a head in dark wood.
Black on black is the real task. For a dark instrument against a dark ground to have any contour at all, the light has to come from the sides and graze the edges — the pale binding and the chrome parts then do the rest. The guitar reflects on the surface below it, and that reflection is the only clue that it is standing on something rather than floating.
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