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Hello brothers and sisters,
I welcome you all to drop by

My Rickenbacker Photo Albums

Have fun with the slide shows.
New photos will be added to the albums when taken.

Enjoy.

Nice pics Paul! The one of Annie uppright in front of the mixing console especially cool! Did the pickup cover you put on the bridge pickup seat all the way to the base? How does it stay on? Now if I could just get around to posting pics of my two 3000's and my 3001.....

Thanks for your kind words, Dane.
The neck PU cover just fits snug to the treble pickup (barely touching the rectangular magnet underneath) as both pickups use bobbins of the same dimensions. But I put in some paper-thin, double-sided adhesive tape to reinforce anyway.
You can have a free account here and set up your albums. Posting pics will be a lot easier then.

Paul-Great pics! Thanks for posting them.

very impressed with the ricshow, especially the "annie" set (they blow official rickenbacker marketing snaps clean away...no offence if you took those aswell!). apart from being obsessed with rics 4000 series I'm just getting into photography myself (got a long way to go!) and am intrigued to know how you got those gorgeous colour tones and pin sharp images? i know you said enjoy the "slide" show but were they shot on negatives or transparancies?
any info. much appreciated
cheers

Glad you like them, Edmond.

Wayne,
Thanks for the kind words. No, I don't think I'm "professional" enough for Mr. Hall to hire me to take marketing shots. I simply take pictures of what I'm in love with---RIC basses among them. The adoration will eventually transform into beautiful images.

It would however be my honour/privilege/pleasure if Mr. Hall really does that!!!

The Akiko and Sophie pictueres were taken within a couple of days after both of them arrived (this past Apr.22). Those shots were kind of taken for the sake of documentation. Annie has been with me for 9 months, long enough for me to feel her and come up with shots that are not too bad.

Actually, I really got into photography at your age---30.
That was 7 or 8 years ago. Started with a Leica Minilux compact camera but my main camera now is an old '70s all-manual Nikon FM (predecessor of the student-popular FM2) sporting a Nikon 50mm f1.4-16 "standard" lens that was owned by my late father (rest his soul) since I was 10.

I only shoot with negative films and my favorite colour films are the Kodak Supra (used to be called 'Ektapress") 400, because I literally don't use flash and tripods and need a film that's fast enough for the sake of sponteineity, with minimum noticeable graininess. (The higher speed, the more grainy). The Supras (and Kodak in general) are warmer (more yellows and reds) and have a nice colour saturation/vividity.

For pin sharp images, I can only hold my breathe and pray for stable hands when clicking the shutter release. Shutter speeds no slower than 1/60 sec if camera is hand-held (most of the time for me). As for colour tones, I pay attention to lighting and sometimes move (the subjects or myself) for a possibly better picture.

The "Slideshow" is only a Yahoo Photos feature that enable the viewer to view a series of pictures successively in a preset speed, just like watching a slide show.

There's an English photography mag. named "Pratical Photography" which should be very accessible for you, that offers very good technique infos for photographers of all levels. I suggest you look for (as many as possible) cheap old issues in second-hand book/mag. shops if you're not looking for infos about the newest gadgets.

Also recommended is the 568 paged, kind of like a "Photographers' Bible"---"The Basic Book Of Photography" by Tom and Michelle Grim published by Plume. Best book for "getting in and grow", IMHO.

You know, photogrphy is like music:

Camera=Bass
Films=strings
Taking pictures=Playing/Songwriting/Recording
Developping=Mixing
Printing=Mastering and Record Pressing
Photoshop Manipulation=Remix

What you play is what you are. Gears don't matter that much. (Still, I want my Rickenbacker basses!!!)

Have fun with picture taking of the people, things and scenes that you "feel" and "love".

P.S. Since digital cameras "don't waste no films and paper" and is more handy with quick image reviews/transfers in this cyber age, you might want to get a digital cam first and do your woodshedding. But be forwarned that "digital is digital",that can't give you the flesh and blood. Just think of the sound/convenience differences between "CDs and LPs" or "Protools and Analog 24-tracks+Real Console". (Maybe you've already got the camera of your choice and found my "photo-talk" too basic and boring for your level, haha...)

Drop me a mail if you want to photo/bass-talk some more.



Above is "Full Moon In May", a new one taken, just a few days ago, of the 2nd dot inlay and the "Black Mountain" wood grain in the fretless fingerboard whose lacquer finish provided reflected lights that made up the clouds. The antique traditional Chinese Scenic Water Paintings that my father collected were an inspiration for this photo.