CP-My latest in figured boxwood (I'm just showing off!)

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CP-My latest in figured boxwood (I'm just showing off!)

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Here's the latest flute in Bb, headed to a player in Chico California. There is just one tiny flaw in the wood - a tiny knot on the backside of the foot joint.

Some would consider the grey staining a flaw as well but I actually like what it looks like on the unstained background. And if the piece of wood has figure, and is otherwise flawless, I will use it! I have a fair bit of this figured wood.

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Note - the distortion is from the camera. This flute is as straight as an arrow!
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I'm starting to twitch. Thanks for the look Casey.

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:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Beautiful Flute Casey!

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wow ! beautiful, thanks for posting.
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Oooo... tasty. :pint:
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Casey Burns wrote:Note - the distortion is from the camera. This flute is as straight as an arrow!
Hi Casey

Noting that you shot this at your camera's minimum zoom (a hunch confirmed by checking the photo's EXIF info), I'd suggest shooting at a longer focal length (zooming in a bit) from further away to minimise such distortions. If you've got the resolution/quality to keep the instrument away from the edges as well and crop the shot later (which you must have done to at least the long sides here given its shape?) that's even better, but the first trick is probably the best start in avoiding that all-too-common (not just in your photo) 'bent' look!

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(Edited to correct 'minimal' to 'minimum'.)
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Thanks for the suggestions. I've actually got a Photoshop application to un-destort photos somewhere. I was using macro, from about 2' away to fill the screen. Its usually just to document the flute so if I se it later on, I'm able to compare. Thus usually I don;t worry about such things (usually I am in too much of a rush to get these into the mail to worry about being a photographer!).

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Casey, you and I have the same problem. We have what we need "somewhere".
Nice looking flute, by the way. It looks like one of those magical boxwood flutes, if I am not mistaken.
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Casey Burns wrote:Thanks for the suggestions. I've actually got a Photoshop application to un-destort photos somewhere. I was using macro, from about 2' away to fill the screen. Its usually just to document the flute so if I se it later on, I'm able to compare. Thus usually I don;t worry about such things (usually I am in too much of a rush to get these into the mail to worry about being a photographer!).
OK, in which case I'd still recommend moving the camera back and zooming in as being an effectively instantaneous route to 'straighter' documented flutes! :)

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If ya'd just put the flute a bit beyond the eaves and climb up on the roof...
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I'm all ears with regard to comments about focal length and straight-flute photography.
By the way, Casey, when I try to ask a question or make a comment at your ebay ad, why does Grey Larsen reply to me? Is he your boss? Here I thought that you were a small, independent flutemaker and not part of a larger consortium.
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yer gonna need one of those feathers, they don't look near big enough to get ya airborn

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Denny wrote:If ya'd just put the flute a bit beyond the eaves and climb up on the roof...
FWIW, I've found putting the flute on the floor and standing up (sometimes on a chair) to be enough! :wink:
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Doug_Tipple wrote:By the way, Casey, when I try to ask a question or make a comment at your ebay ad, why does Grey Larsen reply to me? Is he your boss? Here I thought that you were a small, independent flutemaker and not part of a larger consortium.
That's interesting, Doug. The link you gave goes to Grey's eBay Store - Grey Larsen Music but the item's location is out Casey's way in Kingston. If you look at the other items in Grey's store, at this point Susato whistles, they all seem to show Bloomington as the location of the item, which I think is where Grey resides. So it would appear that Grey is a reseller of both products but the flutes ship from Casey's in Kingston. Does that make any sense?

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Peter Duggan wrote:
Denny wrote:If ya'd just put the flute a bit beyond the eaves and climb up on the roof...
FWIW, I've found putting the flute on the floor and standing up (sometimes on a chair) to be enough! :wink:
yes, I've done that...worked fine

Casey isn't quite as tall as I am...
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