This was a little personal project. I was attending the Gold Coast Motor Bike Expo to shoot the Show Time FMX demo (pics to come shortly). During a little free time I took a wonder round the show. I wanted to take some photos of my favourite bikes on display, the trick was figuring out how to do it in the middle of a busy expo floor. So here is what I did…
I used a monopod with a tribase to support the camera instead of a tripod, so as to avoid the possiblity of anyone tripping over my equipment. To this I mounted my trusty little D40 because of its native higher sync speed of 500th of a second. Looking back I could have used my d300 and used nikons high speed sync feature – have to try that next time.
I used a sb-800 with a honl snoot to control the spread of the flash. Then I shot 3-5 images of the bike making sure my camera settings (500th of a sec at f14) killed any ambient light meaning the only thing visible in the picture was the parts of the bike lit by the flash.
Finally when I got home I combined the 3-5 different frames into a single image. The results of which are below. I wish now I had taken an ambient exposure so you could see the environment these were shot in. Another thing to remember for next time.
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