Triumph Thunderbird Sport at night
Here is the first post detailing a motorcycle photography shoot from concept to photograph.
The idea was to create a slightly surreal picture featuring the Thunderbird Sport apparently photographed at night bathed in moonlight.
Ok, so now to unravel it all and explain how it was done.
This shot was originally taken early afternoon and the scene was backlight by the sunshine. It was this sunlight that was going to give the effect of the bike being lit by the moon.
The equipment used for this shot was:
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Nikon 24-70 f2.8
Camera mounted on a Manfotto tripod
Flash:Â 1 x SB800, 1 x SB900 trigged by Pocket Wizard wireless control.
The SB900 was camera right and fired into a silver brolly reflector as the fill light. The SB800 was left of the camera and fired directly at the bike, the angle being such that the light reflected and picked out some of the details.
Editing:
Once there was a photograph to work with, it was firstly processed in Color Efex Pro 4 using the Midnight filter. The image was then saved as a TIFF and exported into Photoshop where the moon and night sky were added and blended. It was important to cool down the tones from the original shot to give the moonlight effect.
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