Installing A Guitar String
- Author: Miroslav Djuric
- Time required: 10 minutes
- Difficulty: Easy
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This guide shows you how to take great photographs for making guides.
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Before you start taking your real shots, take some sample pictures to test your lighting.
Pay attention to:
How "white" your whites are
Shadows and reflections
Under- and overexposure
Auto-white-balance sometimes doesn't function properly. If you're indoors, use the tungsten or incandescent (3000K range) setting. If you're outdoors, select daylight (5600K). On some cameras you can also automatically set white balance by taking a picture of a sheet of paper.
When you take pictures on a light background, the picture will sometimes appear too dark. To compensate for this, increase the exposure.
Once you have a lighting setup that you're happy with, leave it the same for the entire shoot.
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Find a location that has plenty of light. Don't use a background that's too visually complex.
Use two lamps on the object, one on each side.
It may be tempting, but don't rotate the camera to take portrait shots. For layout consistency, we require all photos have a landscape 4:3 aspect ratio.
Mount the camera to a tripod if you can. Most of today's cameras work great for taking guide pictures. All of the guitar pictures were taken using a Canon PowerShot S410.
It certainly helps to hook the camera up to your computer after your few initial shots to see how they look on a bigger screen.
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