You know I have a very loving wife. Saturday we went to a couple of music stores. I have an idea that I want to photographs of some musical instruments. Ideally I wanted a violin, a saxophone, and a french horn. I think my style of close in shots might be interesting to shoot with these pieces.
The first store was Sam Ash Music. They could rent me the violin and sax for $180 a piece for a year. Not quite what I had in mind. I only need it for a few days or so. However, they did have this really cool red acoustic guitar that was on sale for $65.00 So I left without the other pieces, but came home with a guitar. I figure that I only need to sell two pictures of it to pay for it..:). Marlene wants to hang it on one of the walls. Did I mention it's red?
The second place was called Music and More. They let me rent a sax for $39.00. It is actually a rent to own thing, but I can return it in three months with no extra charges. Now I only need one picture to cover this expense.
Neither place had the french horn. I am currently bidding on a used one on Ebay. I am also bidding on a starter 4/4 violin. They both cost about $10-15 a piece with shipping being about $30.00. So I hope to have those shortly.
I have added an album in the gallery page which contains my first test shots with the pieces. TI have decided to use this album as a "scratch pad" of images where people can comment and vote.
Posted by srivinus at February 27, 2005 05:28 PM