A good mate of mine turned 60 recently and he is obsessed with all things bicycle. Having no clue about what to get him for his birthday, I decided that I would try to do a series of photos for him. I really wanted to explore square format, and went ahead to mount the results of wet printing each in a frame with a 5in X 5in window in the cut board. These are digital interpretations of the finally presented prints, although I think that digitising the negatives has degraded the feel of the images somewhat. I rejected for the final series a print of Brake that I took during this session and posted a little while ago. I find this type of project quite invigorating and that it gives a certain amount of purpose to my hobby. (OM4, zuiko 50mm f3.5 macro with extension tubes, HP5 @ 400)
2 comments:
Marvellous triptych Boyd, I respect your decision to exclude "Brake" but I do think it every bit as splendid as these images. I wouldn't be surprised if the marketing section of Shimano start asking you to do product shots :-)
Very classy Boyd! What really shines is the combination of soft lighting and shallow DOF. Beautifully captured and yes, as Martin has said, these would make stunning product shots!
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