The Telecaster

The Telecaster

The first picture of the Telecaster here is of the body of the guitar showing reflections of the room that it is in (Sherlock Holmes poster, light, etc.) It is by no means a great picture, but the reflection makes the guitar almost 'invisible' and you can barely tell that it is even a guitar with a quick glance. A neat feature is how the guitar is blurred and/or out of focus, but the reflection is quite clear and sharp while it is usually the other way around. Guitars a just an instrument and it is not what they are themselves that makes them special and unique, it is what a musician does with it to make it that special. Anyone can own a guitar but that does not mean that they can play it and create meaning with it. There's also some nice contrast between the white of the top and the bottom and the dark in the middle. This contrast symbolizes the power and versatility of the guitar as a musical instrument. Not only is it capable of making light, beautiful music, it is quite capable of playing heavy death metal type music with screeching guitar solos and a much darker ambience.

The second picture shows the guitar in a very different light. It is a much warmer and softer feel, almost as if it were shot on film. The image is slightly skewed with the visible part of the guitar tilted off to the right, which prevents the image from being to static and adds some excitement to the image. With the right filter this could be a very cool vintage shot of the guitar because even right now without altering the image it feels a little older than the guitar actually is. The Telecaster model of guitar has been around for over fifty years and this shot of a modern guitar with a realistic vintage feel harkens back to the original days of this type of guitar. It acts as a bridge between years and shows how even in this modern age there are still similarities between now and the past. You would also expect the contrast to be sharp between the guitar and the background, but fortunately, the silver on the guitar acts as a sort of transition between the gray background and the wood of the guitar making the transition much softer on the eyes.

This last picture is rather similar to the first in that it becomes interesting once the reflection is considered in the picture. It achieves the same effect as the first, except perhaps a little neater without all the reflection from the walls. It is a nice, symmetric image that balances the top and the bottom of the picture quite well. The symmetry demonstrates the mathematical qualities of the guitar or music in general. Yes, music is about freedom and expressing yourself, but there are also rules of numbers and scales, chords, etc. that need to be followed. The shine of the light off the knobs here finish the image off with an almost dreamlike quality that is accentuated by the perfect reflection below. The shimmering, shining lights off of the knobs again remind us that it is capable of create noises that shimmer and dance. If one were to play some nice melodies in a major key it would seem as if the guitar itself was sparkling and shining along.

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