Post Beautiful Bass Photos--how do you do it?

[shastaband]

Just a question for other members of the forum. The two times I've uploaded photos, I was limited to 100KB of attachments. In fact, I had to delete an image from an earlier thread I posted in July to free up the space to upload a pic of my new SR5 at its first gig yesterday. Yet I often see members posting multiple large photos of their MusicMan basses, all of which must be more than 100KB, given the size and detail of the photos. So my question is, how do you do it? Thanks in advance!

 

[dlloyd]

Just a question for other members of the forum. The two times I've uploaded photos, I was limited to 100KB of attachments. In fact, I had to delete an image from an earlier thread I posted in July to free up the space to upload a pic of my new SR5 at its first gig yesterday. Yet I often see members posting multiple large photos of their MusicMan basses, all of which must be more than 100KB, given the size and detail of the photos. So my question is, how do you do it? Thanks in advance!

Get yourself a photobucket account, upload the photos there and link the photos with img tags.

www.photobucket.com

 

[dlloyd]

Any difficulties you might have should be covered in this thread...

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6299

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

You need to subscribe to a photo host site on the internet. After you upload your pics to the photo host, you then link them to your your thread. In effect, the photo host is the in-between medium.

Some are free and some you pay for. The free ones have limits.

If you want to post pics, I have a photo host that has plenty of mega space and is basically sitting there doing nothing. I'm more than happy to host your pics.

Lemme know. My email:

HERE

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

As usual, Dave beat me

 

[shastaband]

Thanks for the prompt advice. I've got a Photobucket account now and restored the image to my earlier post. By the way, I'm a member of a number of online forums related to music gear, but this one is by far my favorite. I find myself here every day, and visit the others far less frequently. Sort of like the way my Stingrays end up being played more than my other basses . . .

 

[bonzo]

Thanks for the prompt advice. I've got a Photobucket account now and restored the image to my earlier post. By the way, I'm a member of a number of online forums related to music gear, but this one is by far my favorite. I find myself here every day, and visit the others far less frequently. Sort of like the way my Stingrays end up being played more than my other basses . . .

Shastaband, welcome. Another helpful hint here...I resize mine for posting. I do it in photoshop. Go to image drop down and click on resize and change the pixels.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Another thing to check is to see if your ISP gives you any free webspace for hosting a home page or similar. Many ISPs give their users free space as part of their monthly fee. Then, all you do is FTP the pics to your webspace, and link the pics to the forum when you need to use them.

 

[midopa]

And yet another way is to use tinypic.com. The advantage of tinypic.com is it's faster and simplier. You just upload a pic and BAM it's done and you're given a small URL to boot. However, you have no real account and your picture is immediately grouped into the collective of pictures hosted on tinypic. By random chance, anyone can stumble onto your pic. I noticed as well at times it's a bit slower than using another host.

 

[Aussie Mark]

I think Tinypic URLs expire after a certain period of time. Not sure if it's weeks or months, but the links do die after a while.

 

[Colin]

forget asking how to post pics, how do we take great photo's!

 

[strummer]

forget asking how to post pics, how do we take great photo's!

Natural light and a tripod for your camera. Not that I can actually take good pictures, but that is basically what you'll need. In fact you don't really need a tripod, but it makes thing easier...

 

[dlloyd]

Or at least good light.

The best way to take bad photos is to use the flash.

 

[midopa]

Now... how to photograph the sparkle finishes?

 

[strummer]

Now... how to photograph the sparkle finishes?

I think (not actually owning a sparkle) that light from at least three angles would be a good idea. Like if you have natural light from the left, use a big reflector on the right and a white sheet from below. Or something.

 

[tiffles]

forget asking how to post pics, how do we take great photo's!

step one.

buy a nikon.

 

[russinator]

Just make sure you have good glass. I dumped my D70 mainly because of the lower quality lens - and didn't want to get better higher priced ones.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

I've found that I can't take a great pic with your first shot. I end up taking 20 or 30to find the right one. But that's the beauty of a digicam.

I sure wish I knew how to do it right in the first few shots

 

[high mileage]

A tripod is a good thing to have - working with natural light will give you slow shutter speeds and trying to hold the camera that way can give you slightly blurry shots. Natural light is great - a lot of portrait photographers have north-facing windows because the sun will never be shining directly in thru it, so you get a nice soft light.

Of course you don't need a studio to do any of this, and a lot of photographers (even pros) make their own reflectors, etc. A white piece of posterboard is bigger than the body of a bass and very cheap. Have the window light coming from one side and the white posterboard reflecting the light back onto the other side of the bass, just out of view from the camera. Keep a fair amount of distance between the bass and the background so you don't get shadows on it.

I use a studio strobe with an umbrella against a white paper background (called seamless paper at photo stores). It would be nice to have a more photogenic guitar stand than what I've got... I know it's the wrong brand of bass but here's an example done this way with a purple Hamer 12 that I photographed for a friend. As you can see, I didn't get the reflection in the body quite right. There's also a little magic that happens in Photoshop, but really not much. Gotta work on the Bongo 5H '06 LE that I just got!