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Favorite Bike Portrait

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How did I miss this thread?

The K75 never looked better:
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The Hills are Alive....

With the Sound of Music. I call this my Julie Andrews shot. Taken in Austria on a rental GS with my bags.
 

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How do you feel about the composition on this one Dave?
The first thing that my eyes see are the curve of the road and then they bounce around from the bike to the sea...lots of stuff in this one.
 
How do you feel about the composition on this one Dave?
The first thing that my eyes see are the curve of the road and then they bounce around from the bike to the sea...lots of stuff in this one.

I was wondering the same thing when I took it, so I tried a lower perspective to get rid of the road. The fence is still an issue, I think, but the depth of field seems to keep the bike the focus.

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I also tried it from a more direct perspective, but I'm not sure it's this bike's best angle.
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My first BMW was an '04 R 1150R. Great looking bike. I'd had it for about 5 minutes when I took this photo.
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The industrial designer's artistry on my K12R Sport

Craig
 

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...and another view...
 

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Not my fav but one of the earliest...

June 05 at Zeke's Burgers in Gold Bar, WA

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This is one of my first photos I took while riding. It's not the greatest, but I've taken worse
 

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I was wondering the same thing when I took it, so I tried a lower perspective to get rid of the road. The fence is still an issue, I think, but the depth of field seems to keep the bike the focus.

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I quite like this angle a lot since it gives a much better perspective with the lighthouse being a more pormidant feature to the image, plus you get a real sence for the curviness of the road. the blurred grass does help create a level of layering to where the fencel ines (broken down fence) (another type of depth) give the grass an extension into the images as a whole... the only thing i would do is a abit of color enhament to the sky and bring up the constrast just a touch... I like it for the white cycle with the white light house.. :thumb

for everyone... there is a good though when photographing that goes... once you have taken the picture you like (found) then it is time to start taking photos.. sometimes i have 10-20 very sutdle variations of the same image.... just to get the clouds right or the angle of the bike inthe image... then in photoshop i spend a few minutes flipping back and foth between the very similar images until i get the one i feel gives me the best sence of what i wanted to show...
 
pride of ownership

First ride for my little guy. Not much of "photograph" but one of my fav pix. I think I ought to snoop around this forum and start to learn to make some better pix both for myself and for posting on the OA forum.
 

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Riding the Dragon, May 7, 2008

Had a chance to ride the Dragon last week.
 

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Trail Link

This a linking bridge from one parking lot to another off of HyWy 2 in Washington state.
 

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This one I like.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_popper/3915716334/" title="Cari. by GrafikFeat, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2652/3915716334_3b69e1556c_b.jpg" width="1024" height="653" alt="Cari." /></a>
 
Then again... There is this one.

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But that was not really a reflection in chrome, was it? :stick

This is a reflection in chrome:

<img src="http://www.snafu.org/smbc/riders/2008/p-20080727-0943-0001.jpg" title="R69S in Chrome">

:deal :laugh
 
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