Ducati Photography..

[kryten2001]

Evening all..

A quiet night at home so I headed out to the shed with my camera and torch to take some photos of the bikes...

There's no photoshop tricks here, just a pitch black shed, a torch, some old-school filters and a long exposure.

[BlackFZR]

very cool. LED torch? or colour correction?

[Deej]

they r shit hot.

[Xuaxace]

Love this one,good work!

[Woodsyau]

Great shots! If you hold your camera on a tripod and light individual sections of your bike and photograph them over 30-40 images, you can use Photoshop to put them all together and get some pretty cool effects. That's how they get all the cool reflections on car commercials in the magazines. Great shots I'll deff be trying something like this.

[Hoddo]

Very nice. Great shots and awesome bikes. Now, can the next shots be taken after both bikes have had a work out ?

[jules_1972]

Awesome Work!!

[MXCVIII]

K you should be sending these to bologne i'm thinking they are flasher than the ducati press photos

[Evil Dwarf]

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[Goldmember]

You should come to our next photo shoot when it comes up.

btw. Nice pictures mate they look really good

[kryten2001]

very cool. LED torch? or colour correction?

Some very minor colour correction (about 900k) as it's a standard 'warm' light and some very basic cropping in a few cases - but these are all otherwise exactly as they came out of the camera. There's no photoshopping or manipulation whatsoever.

I'm a bit old-school with my technique and my design skills in photoshop are pathetic. I don't really mind though coz I do prefer the natural look as opposed to a lot of the overprocessing you see in some people's photoshop work... If you can't tell it's been photoshopped then all good and well - but I suck so bad at graphic work I tend to do it all in-camera using technique, filters and so forth.

Great shots! If you hold your camera on a tripod and light individual sections of your bike and photograph them over 30-40 images, you can use Photoshop to put them all together and get some pretty cool effects. That's how they get all the cool reflections on car commercials in the magazines. Great shots I'll deff be trying something like this.

yeh mate that technical/creative side is lost on me. I've seen some of the work those guys do and it just boggles my mind. Different generation of artists mate.. I'm pushed into digital using darkroom era techniques!

Very nice. Great shots and awesome bikes. Now, can the next shots be taken after both bikes have had a work out ?

What, and get them dirty?

K you should be sending these to bologne i'm thinking they are flasher than the ducati press photos

Thanks mate. Yeah I do take a bit of pride in my photo work. It used to be a real major hobby of mine, but it's something you really need to have a lot of spare time available if you want to persue it properly (as a hobby I mean).

l think you could make a living doing this...

Not one that pays enough to buy 1098R's you don't! It's also one of those kind of hobbies which is brilliant, yet is ruined as a hobby if you turn professional.

Thanks guys appreciate the comments. This type of photography really shows you how varied different photographic techniques can be. This particular type of work is better described as 'painting with light', as it is quite literally what you are doing.

[Ozboy]

The colours are quite vivd, what filters do you use ? Have you increased colour saturation on the camera?

Very nice pics indeed. Its great to see people enjoy their photography and put it to good use.

[kryten2001]

The colours are quite vivd, what filters do you use ? Have you increased colour saturation on the camera?

Very nice pics indeed. Its great to see people enjoy their photography and put it to good use.

I use Cokin drop in filters (Square). There's a +2 ND filter in a few of those to allow the aperture setting I wanted to use (f/16), plus a graduated ND filter in some plus a cooling filter on that blue one.

The blue one did have a little bit of white balance colour overcorrection (-2k) as well to really give it that cold look.

Otherwise yeah they're pretty well as shot.

The lens I used in most of these shots is particularly sharp and renders fantastic contrast, but it's largely down to the angle of light and alternating the distance of the light source to the bike's surfaces.

For example, for the carbon I had the front of the torch only a few inches away from the surface - at right angles. This really brings out the contrast in the fibre... The rest of the panels had a sweeping beam with the torch held about 2 metres back.

This type of photography is more around working with feel rather than scientific method. It's a bit hit and miss until you figure out what works best for a particular shot.

[PrestigeCBR]

I use Cokin drop in filters (Square). There's a +2 ND filter in a few of those to allow the aperture setting I wanted to use (f/16), plus a graduated ND filter in some plus a cooling filter on that blue one.

The blue one did have a little bit of white balance colour overcorrection (-2k) as well to really give it that cold look.

Otherwise yeah they're pretty well as shot.

The lens I used in most of these shots is particularly sharp and renders fantastic contrast, but it's largely down to the angle of light and alternating the distance of the light source to the bike's surfaces.

For example, for the carbon I had the front of the torch only a few inches away from the surface - at right angles. This really brings out the contrast in the fibre... The rest of the panels had a sweeping beam with the torch held about 2 metres back.

This type of photography is more around working with feel rather than scientific method. It's a bit hit and miss until you figure out what works best for a particular shot.

English please - just point and shoot ?

Awesome photos, love the affect........they would be framed and mounted in the shed.

[Goldmember]

English please - just point and shoot ?

Its pretty simple mate

[Rooboy]

Great pic's cobber.
Did you do anything extra to get the blacker than Black background, as you can't see any ghosting/silohetting of the rest of the bike or was it the filters used? As usually you get some other light sources creeping in re streetlight, moonlight. Or you really got a dark shed man.

[kryten2001]

Great pic's cobber.
Did you do anything extra to get the blacker than Black background, as you can't see any ghosting/silohetting of the rest of the bike or was it the filters used? As usually you get some other light sources creeping in re streetlight, moonlight. Or you really got a dark shed man.

No, it's a common misconception that a camera can pick up the differences between dark and light as well as the human eye can. So long as your light source is MUCH brighter than the background, and you properly expose for the light source - you won't pick up the dark areas. If the light wasn't as bright then yeah you'd see some background detail. The shed I have the bikes parked in only had barely enough light to make out the shapes of the bikes.

Cameras only have about 10 'stops' of sensitivity, so if your dark areas are 10 times darker than the bright areas - they won't show up.

It was even more profound in the dark old days of film, as slide film (in particular) only had about 4 stops of sensitivity. Bitch to expose properly...

A very small aperture (f/16) also means you can get things _really_ sharp. It also means that the image exposes very slowly so you can make a few mistakes with your light source and they won't show up too badly - or rather, you need to be VERY deliberate where you put the light before it 'burns' onto the image.

It sounds complicated but it's not really.

[duc13]

l think you could make a living doing this...

+1, will have to get you into my shed to take some pics, i really need some decent pics of mine.

[Streetbobbin]

Well done man - you deserve that bike.

[pnork]

coz he can take nice pics?