Tricks to get your motorcycle to look impressive in the photos

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Details to consider before immortalizing our mount with a camera or mobile

Gonzalo de Martorell

In addition to driving it, the second thing that the bikers always do with our mount...Photograph it.Today we propose some very simple tricks to improve the quality of our photos and get them to look prettier for little experience when it comes to tightening the mobile or camera button.

A photograph is much more than a simple image shown on a screen;A photograph allows to relive and enjoy again.Nothing and no one dies at all while there is a photograph that remembers it and that is why we love to photograph what we love.To our partner, our children, our loved ones...But also to our pet, to that delicious corner where we had a good time on vacation, to the dishes of the restaurant where we ate phenomenal and of course our motorcycle.

Improving the quality of our motorcycle photos is relatively easy by just taking care of some details

No hay ningún motero que, más temprano que tarde, decida convertir a su máquina en eventual modelo yPhotograph it de faro a escape para exhibirla con orgullo...although with unequal result in many cases.The good thing is that, in reality, improving the quality of the photos of our motorcycle is relatively easy by just taking care of some details since they are photogenic by nature.Let's look at some tips...

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The motorcycle always clean

It should hardly be discussed although it is also the point at which it is usually failed.Before a photo shoot, even if it is to hang out and in the home yard, the motorcycle must be freshly washed, very dry and shiny.It is the first thing that a professional photographer will always tell you that, in fact, it will surely use more time in the motorcycle cleaner process than in taking the photograph itself.That is because the camera amplifies the defects;That dust that barely notes with the naked eye, in the photograph highlights a lot.

Be careful with the environment!

It is a pity that after the time I used to prepare the motorcycle leaving it like the jets of gold, that bin in the background or that paper in the foreground or that bush that appears on the left side spoils everything.A photo is background and figure.If you cannot have a special environment, just the street, of course!But care that there are no objects that spoil the picture.It is incredible the number of small hinddos that appear in a photo and those that we had not fallen into the account when making it.

The light cheats

Many photography fans tend to think that how much more light there is in the environment and the sun shines, the better the photograph will be.As well...Not so at all!To the lens of our camera or mobile, exactly like our eyes, excess light bothers you and the final result can become an incomprehensible mixture of shadows and glitters that distort everything.A professional photographer is able to counteract him with different technical resources but to avoid dislikes as a simple amateur, it must be thought that, as a general rule, the best light to take photographs is that of the first hour of the morning or the mid -afternoon.

To the search for different frames

The motorcycle - we have commented on it - is very photogenic and offers creative possibilities that go beyond putting it on the easel and taking a perpendicular photo.What really makes a difference and above all is much more fun is to look for different frames and more personal points of view;Play with the reflexes in the chrome or with engine details, get on or stretch on the floor, take advantage of some bottom element...​Y conviene recordar, por cierto, que las motos, no son simétricas; las hay que cuentan con escapes a ambos lados y otras que solamente los llevan en un lado.In this case it is better to always photograph the side where the escape as a whole is since the other will always look a little more "poor".

The Comptroller, that great enemy

One of the most frequent errors of occasional biker photographers is the feared and no less repeated contraluz.You never have to have the sun in front when firing if we do not want to see our motorcycle reduced to a black spot report!As we said in the previous section, a professional or an amateur with a good technical level is even able to take advantage of the comptroller as an artistic resource - and still remains one of the most difficult techniques - but amateurs must always have the sun to theirback at the expense that the background is not so beautiful...or wait for the icing king to change.

Styl models

Let's say that you have a clean motorcycle, the perfect environment, the right light and a good idea.The next question is almost always: I photograph the motorcycle alone or do I include my partner?Well, apart from the obvious that it can be done "without" and "with", the really important thing is that the "look" of our eventual model is up to the machine.And I do not mean carrying a very expensive technical team or brand clothes but simply that your image is consistent with the motorcycle style.Posing in colored leather monkey next to a custom or with an open-type open helmet.

Take what is needed

Even the most basic mobile already has elementary but quite functional photographic retouching programs.Add some effect in its fair measure, play with tones and color saturations or with black and white they can turn a normal photo into a "fotaza".Even professional photographers use them so you should not have any repair to do so, provided that it does not abuse it to the extreme of turning the photo into a cartoon.And although a good filter can save a bad photo after.That allows, for example, to gain space with the margins knowing that they will later be eliminated.