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Location: Jet City | Well I've had this for a bit over a week or so. I'm laggin on the pictures.
Had lots of fun with this thing so far and have worked out some pretty cool stuff I think. I really like being able to add just a touch of electric to acoustic leads. I've had even more fun with it using the RC20XL looper to lay down an acoustic rhythm, then turning the knob for some growl to lead over it.
Good stuff. And a beauty in black!
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Location: Jet City | And a few on the table:
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thanx Damon... Until I saw your pics I thought that the VXT was Flat on the back!
Real nice guitar. |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Nice pics Damon...makes me want to own one. |
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Location: Vernon CT | Very Nice Damon! Enjoy it!! |
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Location: South of most, North of few | What, no fingerprints? You would have to play that one with cotton gloves on. :D
Very nice Damon, I only wish my limited skills would make it reasonable for me to own one. |
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Location: Cincinnati | Great pics as usual, Damon. Are you going to do a video clip like you did with the UK II? |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Trader Jim:
Very nice Damon, I only wish my limited skills would make it reasonable for me to own one. I know EXACTLY how you feel Jim.
Damon, it's about time you just printed your own calendar I think. These pics did nothing to help my "unreasonable wannas" at all! :p MAN that looks nice!  |
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| Beautiful. (I've never seen a cleaner black guitar!) |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Damon....your photography would make me want to buy a piece of T111 siding with strings painted on it. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Beautiful Guitar. The TRC is cool. |
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| Gorgeous! Let's hear ya play it now. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Luscious photo op dude! She did give you a lot of energy. |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | <>
To put it simply...WOW! |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I was never impressed with the VXT looks until you posted this black one. Black is not my favorite guitar color, but this one is tempting. Nice! |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Your photos are amazing, friend. |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Very nice my friend...enjoy! and thanks for sharing! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | now that's a pretty -5. |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Beautiful guitar and pics. We really need a video, though... ;) |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
....Black is not my favorite guitar color,.... I like black. That is until they come out with something darker. :cool: |
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Location: Vermont USA | "I like black. That is until they come out with something darker." posted by Capo Guy
Dark Black kinda like Dark Chocolate
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Location: Jet City | Thanks all. Black guitars are kinda tough to shoot. For each picture you see, I think 4 others were discarded.
I'll get some video up in the next couple days. It's really a cool guitar. |
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Location: GA USA | Nice pix, D. I was looking (again) at your guitar website, and then I went to look at T-60's on Ebay. I didn't realize they were so cheap. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Beauty Damon.
I think I'd like one in 'Bowl-paint Black', like the Eclipse. So I'll have to wait with the bottom feeders for somebody to Scramardamden a new one. |
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Location: Crossville, TN | Very nice. I can't wait for a video, if it sounds half as good as it looks, it's gonna be SWEET!!! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I like it. |
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| Originally posted by Damon67:
Black guitars are kinda tough to shoot. You got it to flare just right though.
Are you using a large light box with a single head in it or something else ?
I was listening to some sound clips for those guitars and really liked them. If I was going to add another instrument it might be one of those. They are a nice clean design which is what I prefer over the more ornate guitars. |
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Location: Jet City | just bouncin' flash. i don't have such sophisticated equipment. I wish dad wasn't so far away. I'd have a full photography studio at my disposal.
I just have a "prosumer" point and shoot. An old (by today's standard) 5mp Nikon Coolpix 5700. It has a flash shoe on top, so that's why I can bounce flash.
I'll do a video with the VXT in the next couple days. |
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| Some of those shots wouldn’t look out of place in an advertisement.
In particular, the first four pictures in your first post have the flaring and graduation from light to dark so well placed that it works as part of the composition so I figured you must have been using something like a soft box with a modeling light inside so it would allow you to put the highlights where you wanted them before taking the picture.
Anyway, very nice stuff.
Yeah, you don't need overly sophisticated equipment to get good pictures that's for sure.
Obviously what you're doing works well and I'm not suggesting that you change anything but just on the point equipment being sophisticated - the first light box I had was home built and very unsophisticated. Made it from styrofoam - 4 feet by 4 feet and about 15 inches deep with a Vivitar 283 stuck through the back of it - front was covered with a few layers of tracing paper. Later I made a more complex version which had a modeling light.
Bounce flash off a large surface may actually be better though because it provides a very large flared area whereas a relatively small light box will sometimes appear as a shape in the picture depending on the size of the object being photographed. |
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Location: The Shop | Hey I built that one! Can tell from the serial #. I have a whole book of numbers and when they were built. Glad you like it. |
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Location: Jet City | My father and uncle are both professional photographers and it's pretty funny. Y'all must subscribe to the same do-it-yourself books, cuz they've built a bunch of contraptions themselves too. Funky but functional. |
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| Yeah, I had an advertising photography studio in Toronto for about 8 years - building things was a big part of it so the studio was very much like a workshop..lol
Didn't have digital back then though - mostly used view cameras or medium format for the smaller stuff. |
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