The wall of coolness

**bart** · 25th November 2009, 21:34

Originally Posted by Woodman

What ya do is you get someone to hold the bike at its balance point while you get ready with the camera. When you say go the guy holding the bike runs out of shot and you take the picture before the bike falls over. if you do it well the holding guy can get back and catch it before it falls. its a great way to damage your bike without actually riding it.

Maybe we should have a best "standing up by itself" photo contest.

That's a brilliant idea. Would it be cheating if there's a couple of mattresses either side of the bike?

Nice bike too
I think I can almost see the stand in the reflection in the puddle.

**junkmanjoe** · 25th November 2009, 22:24

JMJ

**dino3310** · 26th November 2009, 09:12

dam straight its cool

**warewolf** · 26th November 2009, 09:22

Originally Posted by cooneyr

That Steve McQueen scrambler thing must be magic or somebody got photoshop out. Its standing up by itself.

Photoshopped. Having seen Big Dave at work, it's a piece of piss.

Notice how there are two identical pairs of three (edit: five) distinct pebbles underneath the bike? I wonder if a section of the ground image has been copied, hmmm?

**bart** · 26th November 2009, 19:37

Originally Posted by warewolf

Photoshopped. Having seen Big Dave at work, it's a piece of piss.

Notice how there are two identical pairs of three (edit: five) distinct pebbles underneath the bike? I wonder if a section of the ground image has been copied, hmmm?

Haha.....good spotting.

See the circles.

**NordieBoy** · 26th November 2009, 19:47

Originally Posted by bart

Haha.....good spotting.

See the circles.

The grass above them too.
It looks like it was on a box stand.

**JATZ** · 26th November 2009, 20:17

FFS it's a cool bike, regardless of whether it's been photoshoped or superimposed or subject to someother image farkelry

**Indiana_Jones** · 27th November 2009, 07:17

Originally Posted by JATZ

FFS it's a cool bike, regardless of whether it's been photoshoped or superimposed or subject to someother image farkelry

only £14,000

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**Monstaman** · 27th November 2009, 07:20

Originally Posted by warewolf

Photoshopped. Having seen Big Dave at work, it's a piece of piss.

Notice how there are two identical pairs of three (edit: five) distinct pebbles underneath the bike? I wonder if a section of the ground image has been copied, hmmm?

I was a good enough Photoshop to inspire a whole new thread tho...

**warewolf** · 27th November 2009, 08:25

Originally Posted by JATZ

FFS it's a cool bike, regardless

Indeed, I was merely addressing the technical issues in producing the image.

ALL good photos you see are tweaked in some manner, and that's not a bad thing. Wet film photographers use lots of tricks while developing & printing to produce a good result (and of course, before that stage). Digital photographers are no different in that regard.

Having watched BD work, it is amazing how a few clicks here and there can transform the raw image from good to great, or in the case of my photos, from crap to merely acceptable.

Of course, there's a lot of skill in knowing what & how to do this.