oldsport500

Sony a6000 w Samyang 35mm 2.8
Centurion Lemans on the Burke Gillman Trail this morning - Lake Forest Park, Washington

northbend 

Interesting backgrounds help alot

P1020042 by NBend, on Flickr


P1030649 by NBend, on Flickr


Hurricane Ridge by NBend, on Flickr


This is one of my favorite photos of the Singer. Taken in the lower Snoqualmie Valley by NBend, on Flickr

See it, Shoot it. Worry about the result later. Sometimes a gem appears

P1040414 by NBend, on Flickr

Taken in Eastern Washington near the town of Vantage along the Columbia River by NBend, on Flickr

Sometimes I try to tell a story

Merry christmas by NBend, on Flickr

Salty Still Life by NBend, on Flickr

Self portraits are challenging but fun to do.

Self Portrait. Arches National Monument. laSalles in the background. by NBend, on Flickr


Self Portrait - Washington Pass by NBend, on Flickr

VintageRide

Adding to the collection:

1977 Sabatini Record









I have a few more I will look for that are passable.

michael k

For myself it's a hobby,to learn a new a skill. I'm not very good at it but I do enjoy it.
I was using A canon T5 (bike pic) and traded it and some lenses for a 7D II and Tamron 24,70 f2.8 lens.
IMG_6343 (2) by K Farm, on Flickr

Like Merziac, I spend a lot of time in the Gorge. They just opened another section of a trail that will go from Hood river to Portland once finished.
Frozen Multnomah Falls by K Farm, on Flickr

Slightspeed

Not my bike, but one I spotted at 2016 Eroica CA. With so much eye candy around, it's hard to get a bad photo there, Samsung Gakaxy S5.

ryansu

I take some decent shots with my iPhone SE while on rides but its while stopped and straddling the bike, I will have to try and get some better bike glam shots that don't involve a fence or garage door background

Slightspeed

A couple more that I like. Samsung Galaxy S5.


Old tech, new tech.

browngw 

My beloved 1976 Supercycle Excalibur (by Bridgestone) among the falling leaves on the Lynn Valley Trail. Sony NEX 16-50 lens (reduced in size using Paint)

tacreamer

pcb 

Lotta nice images, and helpful hints here. I'd say that composition, lighting & exposure are the basics for any strong, compelling photo, regardless of hardware. A well-seen, well-captured smartphone photo will tickle your neurons better/longer than a badly-composed, badly-lit, badly-exposed full-frame shot. But better hardware does have advantages, more versatility, and can help minimize post-processing needs. Bigger sensors and longer/faster lenses make it much easier to isolate the subject from the background. They resolve more detail, and perform better in tricky or marginal lighting.

Digital capture gives you a decent preview of your shots, and gives you in-camera/phone options and versatility film never could, but I generally need to post-process most of what I shoot to get it where I want it. My post-processing skills are kinda basic. Better photoshop/lightroom skills make a difference.

I'm a big fan of how vonruden sees/captures images----you can usually take the bike out of the photo and it's still a great image. I'm more about the bike than the image, so I generally go with the larger sensor, faster lens, and shoot almost exclusively wide-open to soften the fore/background. The longer lens gives more visual compression and helps better isolate the subject---but I may need to be 10-15' back to frame the shot. jamesdak showed some nice examples of how you can get tight with a bigger sensor and fast lens to just melt the background away. Nobody's looking at anything but the lugs/whatever. Never hurts to have Leica glass!

My lightweight rig is usually a Panasonic GM5 w/Olympus 45/1.2 short-tele. I've also got an Oly 75/1.8, which gives me more compression, but the working distance is much longer, and focusing much trickier. I'll use Fuji APS-C or Sony full-frame if I want softer backgrounds, but that's getting heavy for me to ride around with. I'll use the bigger rigs for backyard shots. Depth-of-field is so narrow that I'm generally always manually focusing, very carefully placing the focus point. Focus peaking and enlarged finder viewing makes that easier.

This is my most-viewed image on flickr, a Kirk Terraplane; Sony A7II full-frame and I-don't-remember adapted fast film-era lens (50/1.2? 85/1.4?). Shot from pretty far back, more about the image than the bike. Shot in 2015, shadows at the bottom look way too dark to me now:


Here's an '83 DiNucci, in basically the same shot as the Terraplane above, with the smaller-sensor GM5 & 45/1.8, and it just ain't as magic. Prolly should have gone with the 75/1.8:


I like this shot of an off-topic Wraith Paycheck, also A7II. More emphasis on the bike here:


This Gunnar Crosshairs isn't as sharp as I'd like, but the streaming sunlight looks kinda nice. That was just luck and being there:


White Waterford RS22, close-up detail shot, soft background, Panasonic GM5 & Olympus 45/1.2. Lighting's kinda flat, because direct sunshine blows out any detail on the white paint. Better post-processing skills on my part could probably brighten it up without blowing the highlights:


I also do some indoor/studio-type stuff, where it's all about product, and the photo gear matters less with a white background. Much harder for me to light and post-process. This is the DiNucci again, drive-side beauty shot & seat cluster close-up:

gaucho777 

The lines on that DiNucci...swoon.

Drillium Dude 

This one breaks a lot of the "rules", but many people have responded favorably anyway; I defer to them:



DD

Drillium Dude 

How weird. I posted my pic, then went through the thread. I immediately recognized in yours the portion of the Burke Gilman trail at SR522 and the Lake Forest Park Town Center. My pic was taken at the bus shelter across the street in front of the Starbucks, no more than 200 yards from where you took yours.

DD

oldsport500

>>I immediately recognized in yours the portion of the Burke Gilman trail

Small world. I know exactly where you were. Beautiful bike you have there. I'll keep a lookout for those tires and wave.

Steve

Drillium Dude 

I will keep an eye out for a yellow/white Centurion and do likewise

DD

Chombi1 

Wow!, that looks like Narnia!

merziac

Actually, when its all finished, you will be able to go from PDX to the Dalles without going on I84 which you can and have always been able to do provided you have nerves of steel. The latest segment to be opened back up is my favorite from John B Yeon state park to Cascade Locks 7mi. The whole thing isn't completely funded or scheduled to be done until 2020 so we'll see, really hope they get there, it will be the coolest bike experience ever imho.

treebound 

treebound 

KraneXL

Exactly. Submit them for review. Maybe someone has an idea that could help out. Also, keep in mind that Photoshop is your friend.

merziac

Ok here ya go,

merziac

Absolutely correct, very worth while trip now as is especially once they get it all open hopefully next spring/summer. I would make it a priority to do as much of it as you can as soon as you can.

Somewhere around 80-90+ depending where you start. Most of it can be done now with some sag wagoning and there is a bus that goes from East PDX to Multnomah falls, Cascade Locks and Hood River which once you get to HR, you can ride all the way to the Dalles. Much of it is on the old Highway 30 that is still in use and when busy can be a little challenging but never bothers me.

crank_addict

Beautiful pictures by all. Personally, I don't 'focus' much these days on taking pics, but here's one from some years ago, call it - where's waldo?! Mercedes anthracite grey 1982 RRB with red Tufo tubular clinchers, during autumn hiding in a Japanese garden. Canon dirty lense (and now broken) point and shoot.

jetboy 

some of these are pretty good. I am not a photographer so i wont try to fix anything specific to the image itself, but rather note you may have a case of "Tall Person Photography Problem" or TPPP. In which you are standing with your camera taking a picture (I have this problem and my wife yells at me about it). This seems like the proper thing to do, until you realize that most photos we actually see are taken from about chest or stomach height on us 6'+ types, and those who are actually good use a tripod at various heights and angles to get the proper composition. So id say try experimenting with holding the camera lower, higher, put it on the ground.. etc. Photography really revolutionized the viewpoint when it came along, as before that pretty much everyone just drew what the eye saw... but now you can put your eye in many new places and get a better and more interesting perspective - and composition.
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merziac

Tx, totally agree on TP theory. Most of these were taken with the background in mind where the TP can be a benefit. I try to remember to shoot just bikes straight on. My fail with these is the washout and lack of clarity which again is error and incompetence on my part, was hoping this camera would solve some of this.