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I don’t know where you are now experience wise so I’m going to be general with my photo tips. First, any automatic feature used when taking guitar photos is your enemy: auto focus, auto exposure, white balance, jpeg files, and auto flash control all want you to take mediocre pictures. Turn it all off and do everything manually. Never, ever use an on camera flash. Always use a tripod and a polarized filter. Look at pictures you really like and figure out how they did it, especially the composition, field of focus, and lighting. The biggest challenge I find is digital cameras have a very small range of acceptable exposure. The range is too small to handle a light spruce top and a dark rosewood side so you either light those surfaces separately or decide which one you want to expose correctly or worst case scenario, try to fix it in post. I hope that’s helpful! Mark
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Wow, base price gets you a whole lot of gorgeous! I agree with everyone else about your photos being as beautiful as your guitars, Mark. One day I'll get up there to see your art work in person.
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Great! Glad that was helpful. I forgot to say guitars are excellent models and can sit still for long periods of time while you work out the details
Thanks SJ VanSandt, it’s an ongoing process deciding what to include or not include in my base price. I think it’s important that my guitars are recognizable as Hatcher Guitars but, at the same time I’m quick to change up traditional trademarks like headstock and bridge styles. Also, as time goes by, I find certain models should just come with particular features so Josie comes with a sound port, Penelope comes with an elevated fretboard. I decided to use other features to hold the look of Hatcher Guitars together so there are a lot of features included in the base price. It’s like bands. Good bands can play a pretty wide variety of songs but, great bands can play a lot of variety yet, somehow, they do this without losing their identity.
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Everything's already been said Mark, these guitars are simply stunning!!
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Have a great time and post some pics.
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My YouTube Page: http://www.youtube.com/user/ukejon 2014 Pono N30 DC EIR/Spruce crossover 2009 Pono koa parlor (NAMM prototype) 2018 Maton EBG808TEC 2014 Hatcher Greta 13 fret cutaway in EIR/cedar 2017 Hatcher Josie fan fret mahogany 1973 Sigma GCR7 (OM model) rosewood and spruce 2014 Rainsong OM1000N2 ....and about 5 really nice tenor ukuleles at any given moment |
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Have a great time and may you sell them all! They certainly deserve it!!!
Thanks for the photo tips. And I agree about guitars being very patient models. We might be in a hurry but they can hold still as long as needed. All the best in Woodstock!!! Paul
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Sorry, just wiping the drool off my keyboard!!!![/QUOTE] No kidding! Egads and GADZOOKS... So beautiful Cheers Paul
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Thanks ukejon, I’ll take some pics but, I don’t think I’ll be able to post them until just after the show.
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I was fortunate enough to play the Woodstock guitars today. Each is wonderful in its own way. The biggest surprise to me was the olive wood guitar. It was small, not my usual cup of tea for that alone. Sometimes small guitars either feel like they are not quite a "real" guitar, or they simply feel too cramped for me to be comfortable, in spite of my 5' 5" in height and trim build. And I like a bold sound, which I have not found to be typical in smaller instruments. The olive wood guitar was none of that. It was much louder than I expected, easy to get some good volume without having to beat on it. It was sweet and full sounding. And it was very comfortable, enough that I could get lost with that guitar on a couch for hours and not get tired. I mentioned this to Mark and he explained much about the design, the elevated fretboard allowing for a different kind of geometry that gives the player some elbow room. Whatever it was, it was terrific. I also loved the base-model Josie, but the standout for me, my playing style and my voice was the spruce-topped Penelope. I found myself saying I could play and sing with that guitar all day. It had great bass, really lush and clear trebles, just enough in the middle to let you know it was there. I sing in the middle, and didn't feel like I had to compete with the guitar to be heard.
It was great to see Mark and his wife, both very special people. Easy conversation, an education on some of Mark's design/build philosophies and easy laughter.
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It’s been educational for me to see/hear so many different folks in rapid succession playing my four very different sounding quitars and sharing their preferences. What I find so interesting is the guitar that sounds best to me when an individual is trying all four in a row is usually the one that they like the best too. Lesson learned might be, be slow to take advice from someone else about how a guitar sounds unless you know first that their playing style is identical to yours!
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Thanks Matthew, Back home now and back in the shop. The show was wonderful!
My wife Karen was in there helping me out. She was getting her guitar talk chops down. Friday night we attended a get together for a Lifetime Award presentation to Linda Manzer. Karen was very taken with the wonderful sense of community in the room and now has a better understanding of one of the many ways I love being a luthier.
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