Part 2 of the Aprilia Caponord shooting (part 1 here). After shooting on the open road, we moved to a nearby agricultural dock and positioned the bike in front of a huge metal roller door. The background is ideal. It is free of distractions, yet provides some structure due to the rounded blades the door is constructed of.

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The shooting setup is simple. Two flashes, placed left and right to the bike, camera and flashes in TTL mode and fire away.

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As you can see the procedure was quite simple. Take a few images, then rotate the bike a little. We worked our way around the bike employing that method quickly – perhaps 30-40 minutes and everything was done.

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I like these on-location shootings, because in contrast to the studio shootings only minimal post processing is involved. In this case only a few things were done:

  • colour correction
  • darkening the visor to black (he had a darkened visor but due to the flash his face was visible)
  • cloning away a small label on the door in the background.

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