Re: [CR]bicycle photography

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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:46:53 -0800
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]bicycle photography


>Hopelessly retro old tech Jan ;)
>
>I recently supplied some bikes for a photoshoot that Worth magazine
>(part of Robb Report?) did and that studio was using cameras that had a
>wireless digital hookup to their computers and Photoshop. Megabucks but
>the results were astonding and instantaneous.
>
>Of course with a magazine art director involved, when the photos wind up
>in the magazine... well.. we'll see...
>
>Chuck Schmidt 3/4
>South Pasadena, Southern California
>
>. The cost of a top digital camera rental would have been more than all the film, development and scanning of the medium-format one... about $ 10,000 for 10 days! Also, it was hard enough to get a good power source for the flash lights in the various sheds, barns and garages where we set up the studio... let alone a computer. So we went with the tried and true, especially since the photographer has 25 years of experience of photographing motorbikes with this equipment.

As Mick Butler pointed out, outdoor action shots are a different thing altogether. You don't expect to see every detail of the crank's engraving in an atmospheric shot of a racer zooming by! -- Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly c/o Il Vecchio Bicycles 140 Lakeside Ave, Ste. C Seattle WA 98122 http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/