MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

Guitars

A series of Cubist Montage images using guitars as the subject.

Instruments

A series of Cubist Montages with musical instruments as the subject.

String Variations

A series of Cubist Montage Photographs, shot at an Instrument Shop specialising in used and vintage instruments. The image was a large display featuring a variety of stringed instruments ranging from a balalaika, and violins to bouzoukis and ukuleles.

I had easy access to a large variety of Musical Instruments that were an ideal and interesting still life subject. The first digital success was of a Yamaha Classical Guitar, propped up against a radiator at shared studio on St-Laurent Blvd in the Plateau area of Montreal. The various parts of the image were photographed from different angles and then all the images were reassembled in Photoshop. I started shooting montages with a Canon d60 then the 10d, followed by a 20d and onto the 5D’s. The technique is now second nature, and relies on multiple images of a scene or subject taken from a variety of different angles to optimize the desired result distortion. The images have become larger with each new camera generation. To date the largest image I have created is in the range of 3 meters by 10 meters made from over 300 pieces.

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