This week I feature another bike from beautiful Italy – The Aprilia Caponord 1200. Its V2 engine delivers 125 HP and 115 Nm of torque. Being red like a Ducati Multistrada it can be easily told apart from a distance by the missing beak at the front. I have to say...
The tooth fairy is a magical creature that comes at night to exchange the lost baby teeth of children with money or presents. The tooth fairy is a nice and gentle creature. But not this tooth fairy. This bike is a heavily modified Suzuki GSX-R 750, and the job was so...
After visiting Hanover industrial harbour in the morning I wanted to go back to experience magic hour. So directly after shooting sunset on the heath I rode on and entered the premises of the harbour. I used the same method as in described in the last post. Camera and...
The VT 1100 Honda Shadow C3 (what a bulky model name by the way) is a luxurious chopper radiating the spirit of freedom. Its 1100 cc engine delivers only 57 HP, but choppers aren’t built for racing, are they? The rider, Björn, suggested a location about half an...
You know what I said about noon. Harsh sunlight, not good for photography, go into the shade if you must take images in such conditinos. And don’t photograph against the sun, your subject will just be a dark silhouette against a blown-out sky. I chose to break...
I have blogged many images of motorcycles in the studio in the past weeks. Post-processing these images took time, since the studio background had to be painted black in PhotoShop. Due to spatial restrictions the backdrop is quite close to the bike (our carport is not...