David, you amaze me. The only one to ever realize or comment on the lighting style. I took this photo as part of a project for a portait class I was taking at the time. The project was to emulate one of your favorite photographer's style. Karsh was the person I was trying to emulate, you just made my day!
Lighting was 2 softboxes with strobes and a little reflector card for some additional fill. The pegs were highly polished chrome and I guess the angle of it made it glow, sometimes you luck out.
The fellow in the photo grew up in the same town as the Martin factory and bought that guitar many years ago. He is also a schooled classic guitarist, I can only envy his playing as I am all thumbs.
Thanks for the nice comments.
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David Goldfarb{K:7611} 6/24/2003
Good use of the frame, classic Tri-X tonality and traditional Karsh-style lighting setup. Just enough accent to separate the hair from the background, and the glint off the tuning peg adds some sparkle. Did you use hot lights for this one? It has that kind of look.
I have one of these guitars (Martin Classic Backpacker). I've considered selling it and getting a better travel guitar, but it took so long to figure out how to hold it properly without messing up my classical right-hand position, I feel I can't give it up now!
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