Bicycle Portraits
Portland has a huge community of hand-built bike builders, many of whom are world renowned, building custom bikes for people all over the world. I started shooting some stuff for Jordan Hufnagel last year, and since then a few of his cohorts have hit me up for shots of their bikes when they’re completed. Two weeks ago there were 8 or 9 bikes in the office over the course of the week, as the guys had all just returned from a hand-built show in the mid-west. Before the bikes were sent to the owners, they got photographed in the studio.
I like bikes, and I like building things, so these bikes are fun to shoot. The details on each bike are totally different, so shooting them is almost like shooting portraits of people. Here are a few shots from last weeks shoots. The bikes are by Hufnagel, Courage, and Argonaut. If you’re in the market for a custom bicycle, definitely check those guys out. Quality stuff.
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[...] designer/photographer Jared Souney has been shooting BMX action shots for a while now. He stepped up his game while shooting some high [...]
Jared Souney | mightypop added this brilliant insight on Apr 01 09 at 10:20 am[...] from other shoots can be found here in my Bike Portraits [...]
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Bicycle Portraits | mexicofixed.com | fixed gear bikes & lifestyle added this brilliant insight on May 13 09 at 1:02 pm[...] bikes rolling through here lately. If you dig these you can check out some previous bikes I shot here and here. If you missed it, you can also check out the video I did on Jordan Hufnagel for Level [...]
» More Bike Portraits. Argonaut. Desalvo. Hufnagel added this brilliant insight on Nov 07 09 at 1:53 amKarl Power added this brilliant insight on Mar 29 09 at 12:33 pmReally nice pics. im currently trying to write a thesis on bike decals/graphics. the importance of them,why they are on bikes, semiotics etc… do u guys or anyboody reading this know where i would find information on any of this? thanx Karl.
Thomas added this brilliant insight on Jul 25 09 at 4:59 pmHey,
excelent photography !
I have just built a bike frame in university. I´m going to take some photos next week. We have access to a photo studio there and I was wandering how you make the bike apear by itslef, as if there was nothing making it stand there. I was thinking fishing line a remove anything that appears with photoshop… i don´t know…any help will be greatly appreciated.
cheers
Thomas
Jared added this brilliant insight on Jul 26 09 at 7:39 pmYou could use fishing line, but it can be a pain in the ass.
I have a white box, and a clear flower vase that sized to fit under the bottom bracket. Then they just get taken out in post production. A lot of it dissapears anyway depending on how it’s lit, and then it just requires a little clean up to get rid of it. Pretty simple.
Thomas added this brilliant insight on Jul 27 09 at 12:09 amthat sounds a lot easier. Thanks
