ravenmore

Hi all. I have a friend who is a manager at Mellow Johnny's - Lance's bike shop. I thought it would be fun to go down and photograph the shop, so I asked her and she said it was cool. Brought the D700 and my Nikkor 20-35 2.8 (both new), and had at it. Here's the first round of edits. Still working on the project, so I might add more stuff later. Hope you enjoy.

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333foto

sweet! minus the toxic blue glow around everything.

ckelly49

Cool shots and nice of your friend to hook you up like that.

Little heavy on the HDR though w/ the halos around the edges.

Grumpy McTrumpy

is that the "original" 1274 Trek? I know they are making copies of it now.

alicestrong

Thanks for posting. Looks like a wonderful shop.

kwrides

+1

ravenmore

yep.

cedricbosch

HDR is sooo 2008.

ravenmore

I love hdr if you couldn't tell. For one thing it really helps with mixed lighting sources like in this environment. I mean in some of the shots I have 3 different types of artificial lighting plus daylight. Good luck balancing that with a conventional shot. I like the halo effect sometimes, but hate that I can't control it well if I want to. I'll probably look at getting Lucis Pro in the near future to see if that helps - kind of spendy though.

Matt Gaunt

Good post. I really like the mood you have captured.

Not a criticism but you might want to go easy on the post-production HDR effects next time as some of those bad boys are trippy!

edit: my post came later than expected - didn't see the previous 2 posts. Ignore my HDR comments.

ravenmore

I'm gonna party like its 1999...

roadiejorge 

Nice looking shop, thanks for the pics.

ravenmore

btw - you guys realize there are 7 TDF yellow jerseys in one of the pics right? Not replicas...

DataJunkie

Nice. Thanks for the picts.

DigitalRJH

Very nice

kwrides

The 1st thing I thought when I saw that pic was, "they must have a good security system".

G_C

Thanks. Nice that your friend allowed you to take some pictures. Regarding your photos I didn't see anything that detracted from your shot. I viewed them all and had no problems admiring the shop.

ok_commuter

Great shop, great guys - wrenches, riders, cycling fans.

One of their wheelbuilders, Aaron, has been extremely helpful and generous with his time.

It's a great place to spend a lunch hour - and you can even eat there!

It has to be a little crazy-making to work there b/c it can be sort of a tourist destination (E.g. MOBBED during SXSW), but it's one of those rare places where the reality far exceeds the hype.

Enthalpic

You can tell Lance has been there by the aura.

For fun, jack the photos in the other direction and make it all faded and crappy looking.

RichinPeoria

those are some whack'd out images you have done there

ravenmore

actually Lance was in the shop when I was taking pics. He was downstairs in the Pedal Hard studio - didn't know until I read his twitter later.

vjp

Photography should not be about the effect or the lens or the camera but about the photographers view of the world. The content is overwhelmed by your post (attempt) all I see in your shots is last years effect poorly done. Your composition is ok.

vjp

ravenmore

kewl. thanks.

Matt Gaunt

This isn't a photography forum though so we can still appreciate that the guy has bothered to take time out to show us the inside of probably the most famous LBS in the world. Yeah, the HDR isn't to everyone's tastes but it's not really the point of the thread.