A couple months back I was asked to take a few photos of a Harley. The owner wanted the photos for online site so that they could sell it off.
I had not done anything like this before and I was very apprehensive. It was pouring down on the day that we decided to do the shoot.
The gear that I had with me that day was my Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm F1.8 and my SB600 flash unit. I for reason decided to take photos only with my 50mm. One of the reason was that I knew 50mm being a prime lens would help me get sharper shots and secondly that was the only prime lens I had.
As it was pouring down, we decided to do the shoot in a garage which had a nice shed. The challenge there was that the wall at the back was too close to where the Harley was standing. I tried all different angles but however I might try the wall was going o be in my photos.
I did a few of shots of the Harley from either sides and then took shots of the detailing and the speedometer.
There was one good thing, I could place the Harley right at the edge of the shed and make my background go blur. But there was too much happening in the background. I tried changing my Aperture to the lowest to get a good bokeh, but it was too bright on the outside.
All the photos were corrected for exposure in Lightroom. Some of the shots have been shot as HDR images and combined in Photomatix Pro.
All in all it was a fun shoot :)
Hope you all enjoy the post. If you have any comments, please leave them below.
I had not done anything like this before and I was very apprehensive. It was pouring down on the day that we decided to do the shoot.
The gear that I had with me that day was my Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm F1.8 and my SB600 flash unit. I for reason decided to take photos only with my 50mm. One of the reason was that I knew 50mm being a prime lens would help me get sharper shots and secondly that was the only prime lens I had.
As it was pouring down, we decided to do the shoot in a garage which had a nice shed. The challenge there was that the wall at the back was too close to where the Harley was standing. I tried all different angles but however I might try the wall was going o be in my photos.
I did a few of shots of the Harley from either sides and then took shots of the detailing and the speedometer.
There was one good thing, I could place the Harley right at the edge of the shed and make my background go blur. But there was too much happening in the background. I tried changing my Aperture to the lowest to get a good bokeh, but it was too bright on the outside.
All the photos were corrected for exposure in Lightroom. Some of the shots have been shot as HDR images and combined in Photomatix Pro.
All in all it was a fun shoot :)
Hope you all enjoy the post. If you have any comments, please leave them below.
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