How to photograph motorbikes?

tmnt

tmnt

King of Australia
I'm looking at doing some photos of a mates sportsbike and also a fellas new Harley. Does anyone have any links to webpages on the matter? Any tips? I'm guessing you have to diffuse the hell out of the light, especially for a Harley with all the chrome.
 
I dont have any links but the shoots I've seen either use softboxes larger than the bike or mulitple lights behind a sheet of diffusion on a frame larger than the bike. So yeah some rather large amounts of diffusion. Are you going to be outside using natual light or strobes? Or inside with Strobes?
 
Nice work PT, #s 13, 15, 18 were my favorites. Some nice cc there. Do you have a pic of #2 w/o the dude?

Any tips?

I did read up a bit on lighting for reflective objects (more for the harley).
 
tmnt said:
Nice work PT, #s 13, 15, 18 were my favorites. Some nice cc there. Do you have a pic of #2 w/o the dude?

Any tips?
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Thanks.
No, I don´t have another pic of #2.

Tips... well it was my first time and it wasn´t organised at all. I just shot around. Maybe that´s good.^^

edit: Do this thing where you lie on the ground and have the bike driving next to you. I think that´s really cool.
 
but maybe you have a driver that you can trust. ;) besides he doesn´t have to go fast at all.
 
Very true. Tripods and remote shutters can be a nice thing too though :) Post back what you come up with TMNT I'm interested in seeing these.
 
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