My parents bought a digi cam so I decided to try it out. Man I must say you photography guys have some serious talent. I cant get a cool looking picture to save my life. Anways, here is a pic from my "photoshoot"



Im gonna post my settings in a lil bit here hoping you guys can give me some advice.

 

the sex

 

nice ride. when you get a chance come to iowa city and cruuuz

 

Thanx for the invite mookie. I may take you up on that.

Anways guys, here are the settings I used. These are the defaut ones because I havent changed any. Any advice you could give to make my pics look better. Also, is this camera any good?

File Name IMG_0030.JPG
Camera Model Name Canon PowerShot SD600
Shooting Date/Time 1/1/1980 12:02:09 AM
Shooting Mode Kids&Pets
My Colors Mode Off
Tv (Shutter Speed) 1/100
Av (Aperture Value) 4.9
Light Metering Evaluative
Exposure Compensation 0
ISO Speed Auto
Lens 5.8 - 17.4 mm
Focal Length 17.4 mm
Digital Zoom None
Image Size 2816x2112
Image Quality Fine
Flash Off
White Balance Auto
AF Mode Single AF
Parameters
Contrast Normal
Sharpness Normal
Saturation Normal
Color Space sRGB
File Size 1560 KB
File No. 100-0030
Drive Mode Single-frame shooting
Owner's Name

 

btw:how do you use that rear stand thing? doesnt bike fall down when you take them off??

 

I normally just use the kickstand but the rearstand makes it look cooler If you look close you can see little red spools in between the holder uper thingy.

 

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You need to use a rear stand if you want to lube your chain or perform other maintenance.
It's easy to use once you get used to it. I myself just stand on the non-kickstand side, pull the bike upright, put the rear stand under the swingarm, then press down on the stand, raising the bike. Bam!

 

Yea I wasnt exactly sure what you meant about the rear stand. I hold the tail and put the stand on. The bike balances so well you wont drop it.

 

Love the exhaust!

 

Try finding some interesting angles to shoot the bike from, and don't cut part of it off. The picture is exposed properly, just there is a bit of detail lost on the tail where it's catching a lot of light. If you were going all out with a photoshoot, I'd find a nice location for it as well. I suppose you could fiddle with the colors in Photoshop as well, but I'm not that much of an expert myself.

 

That is a great Point and Shoot camera. Just in future pictures be sure not to cut off anything attached to the bike or the bike itself. Also try either getting above the bike to take the picture or below it.

 

The exposure is fine, i might play with the contrast a little and colors slightly in PS, but 90% of what makes a picture is composition.

Like performance first said, don't cut of parts of your bike, and you'd be really surprised at how much a little cropping can do to improve a picture. Also, angles are good, a full profile is generally not as interesting as a 3/4 angle shot, try different elevations--up high, down low, etc.

Also, knowing what light conditions do for your pics will really help you put it all together. An overcast day will lead to very even light, w/ not many shadows, where as a direct light source (like the sun) will cast very dramatic shadows.

hot bike btw

 

looks great!! looks very clean!!

 

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Or you can just spray on some lube, push the bike forward a little bit... spray some more... push some more... etc.

(My bike came from the factory with a centerstand, but somewhere between there and when I got it someone decided they didn't want it, haha.)

 

how loud is the bike with the pipe just cut off there? I'm assuming non turbo so that isn't there to keep the exhaust quiet...

 

Sweet man. Like the exhaust. I personally like the side shot that you have. I normally just use adobe or some other program to crop the pic later to cut out all the unwanted background stuff.

 

are you running straight headers on that thing??
it must be up in the 100-100 db if you are....

yeh avoid boring side angle shots, try get something with a good perspective...

 

Quick question about that... there's an Army guy with a supercharged 'Busa at the recruitment station here, and his bike has short little pipes that come out of the right side hole in his fairing (diameters of pipes are different). The bike isn't even that loud, yet my 400 with a full exhaust is hella loud compared to his Hayabusa at idle/mid-throttle. I haven't heard it at full rip though, so I could be wrong. No idea about this stuff.

The R1 looks great. Super clean, even more so without a full exhaust.
Side shots can be cool too, but ya gotta get the right background for it.

 

Duster I do have a baffle in there somewhere. It is pushed up to the exup valve in the header. It is not as loud as you would think but sometimes id like to have something quieter.

 

I love the look of it....very cool, i don't know if i could handle the sound though...

 

Just wondering wouldn't that exhaust be shooting **** on your back tire??

 

i want.

 

Good looking bike. Clean and neat.

As far as the pics go, experiment, experiment!! Play with different angles. Depending on where you live, time of day, and different objects, no one object takes the same pics good that other objects might.

Just a small tip, work on your aim. if you've ever shot a rifle, it's the same principal. Unless you are getting tricky, you should have the center of your object in the center of your pic. In your picture, the pot on the left isn't as important as getting the entire front tire in the pic (part of the object). Again, work on nice straight forward shots with the object in the center of the pic. Then start playing with angles, with the object dead center. Once you've taken TONS of pics like this, then start to include things such as background items, sunsets, etc.

It's an art form, so everyone will do it just a little bit different. kinda like building a car, bike, etc. Just do what pleases your eye.

Good luck, and keep the rubber on the road (the rear anyways)

 

thats what makes photography so appealing to so many different people...subjectivity.

 

I was thinking about doing a cut exhaust like that on my F4i

does it mess with your backpressure? Did you remap it?