Why is this pic better?

No, sorry, no bikini clad models. It was the first example I found that showed three lights like I used.

Now you've made me spend valuable work time to find something closer to my set-up. (Which I believe is no longer available.)



I only have three lights, add a colored sweep, and swap the snare drum for a Starfire!




I don't know photoshop so I did very little post production.

That is the largest light tent I've ever seen! Holy cow!

Get a bigger one and then you can shoot bikinis!

fronobulax said:

Curiously I would have referenced the artifact as near the "waist". Is that because I have some disorder that makes me assign human characteristics to guitars or is it because a pickguard is irrelevant to a bass player who uses fingers?

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Yeah, I would normally call it that too but my brain wasn't working late last night!!

Regarding assigning human characteristics to guitars, no you are not the only one - neck, head, shoulders, waist (& others) are all used. I may have a bigger issue as explained below:

Ann-Margret:



Natalie Wood:

I dated a girl who could have played Anne Margret in movies. I like the names.

GAD said:

I once wrote a story and gave it to my wife to read. She said, "I like it." Hmm. I took it back and edited it with an eye for something called cadence and when she read it again she said, "Wow! This is much better!" When I asked why, she couldn't tell me and said, "I don't know; it just is."

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Right. Why some people really did read Playboy for the articles.

GAD said:

Just swap "Hair Light" for "Headstock Light". That's how I do it.....
Lighting is like that. When it's terrible people notice.
When it's good people don't notice (which is good because then they focus on the subject).
When it's amazing people say, "wow!", but most can't tell you why.

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And that's why people missed Playboy's models so much they had to bring back the centerfold.

What that DOES tell is that we all see different things and what GAD was miffed about, none of US even really noticed.

I suspect that if you had one light, with a big diffuser on it, you wouldn't get those highlights.