Recent content by JonPatrickHyde1

Absolutely! If the purpose of your photos is to sell the instrument, you need to give the buyer a lot of detailed information visually. It's one thing to be able to take an instrument for a test drive, another completely to buy it without having seen it, played it, etc... I help people sell a...

50mm lens, full frame 35mm sensor DSLR, remote shutter release (wireless), tripod mount (gimbal preferred for ease of adjustment), RAW format, 5200K color balanced lights (soft source)... I use a Kino-Flo 4 light kit, calibrated monitors (I use Asus ArtPro calibrated monitors).... And a lot of...

Thanks for the support, I sincerely appreciate it. And wow. You've got a nice gig. Shooting artwork is so tricky. I've done a few shoots, shooting medium-format shots of a set of 1800's water colors of the various Spanish Missions of California for the California Historical Museum. This is...

Thank you! I sincerely appreciate it!

Thanks for this... It's great feedback. My photography process isn't what you've stated above. I shoot a single image - what you see in every photo presented for catalogs is authentic. I did ONE photo of a WCR NS-4 in layers to eliminate the reflections of the studio lights for Stuart...