Triumph goes urban

Triumph Thunderbird goes urban

Light Painting a Thunderbird

Light Painting a Triumph Thunderbird

Triumph Thunderbird gets the ‘Light Painting’ treatment.

The above picture was taken using the increasingly popular Light Painting technique where the image is photographed using multiple exposures before it is layered and blended during the editing stage.

Photograph taken by BikePix © 2014

 

Triumph Thunderbird at the sea side

Triumph Thunderbird 900 at the sea side

Here is a photograph of a Triumph Thunderbird 900 photographed at Paignton harbour in Devon. The colourful sea side background is contrasted by the powerful cloudy grey skies and that almost compliments the maroon and silver two tone pain scheme on this bike?

This 2001 model is a lovely example of why these Hinckly build Triumph’s are still enjoying such popularity amongst Triumph enthusiasts.

Art Retro?

Triumph Thunderbird tank badge

Close up photograph showing the tank badge from a Triumph Thunderbird 900.

This retro style ‘mouth organ’ tank badge was intended to evoke a sense of nostalgia associated with the Triumph brand.
 

Triumph Thunderbird at Greenway House

Triumph Thunderbird photographed at Greenway House

This photograph shows my Triumph Thunderbird 900 looking very regal outside of Greenway House, near Galmpton. The cream walls of the famous building show the bikes features off quite nicely. Greenway Houses’ claim to fame is that it was at one time the home of Agatha Christie, but is now owned by the National Trust.

 

If you go down to the woods today….

 

Triumph Thunderbird Sport woodland photo shoot © Bikepix 2014

Triumph Thunderbird Sport woodland photo shoot © Bikepix 2014

 

Here are a two photographs taken in woodland for a photo shoot today. Featuring a 2003 Triumph Thunderbird Sport.

Motorcycle Photography by BikePix

Today’s photography project…….

Triumph Thunderbird Sport at Night

Triumph Thunderbird Sport at night © Bikepix 2014

Triumph Thunderbird Sport fantasy night shoot:

This photograph is the result of an afternoons work and as you can see it is a slightly surreal fantasy shot.

The bike appears to have been photographed by moonlight, but of course it is not real.

To read more about how the shot was set up, please visit Bikepix © 2014

Getting creative

Motorcycle Photography: In the introduction to this blog I said I would post up some examples of motorcycle photography and offer a brief explanation of how the shot was taken. Photographs like the one above are relatively simple to take provided you have the right equipment.

A shot like this is pleasing to the eye because of the limited depth of field, in other words the shot gets increasingly more blurred and out of focus, the further away the subject is from the lens.

This effect can really only be accomplished by using a digital SLR with a lens set on a wide aperture, say f4.5 or less. Focus on the closest point of interest, in this case the letter H in the word Triumph.

Lighting is always a key factor to consider in taking any photograph. In this picture a reflector was used positioned lower left to bounce some light and some fill in flash was added off camera upper left.

Positioning a flash gun on top of the camera is never a good idea as the light will then lack any ‘direction’. The easiest and cheapest way to overcome this is to use a flash sync lead to move the flash gun off camera.

The flash was not fired directly at the bike as that would be too harsh. Instead it was fitted with a small diffuser to soften the light. You might also need to consider dialling down the flash guns power rating to avoid ‘nuking’ your subject at close quarters and over exposing the picture.

Below is another example using the same photography technique. This time the focus was locked onto the closest edge of the bikes ‘cheese grater’ air cover and then the picture is recomposed to throw the background out of focus.