The Infamous Biker

[Ballistics]

Some of you may remember the story from the tattooed fellow from February's photo of the month.
Well the Sons Of Anarchy casting director finally got back to this gentleman, and asked him to provide
photos of him on one of his bikes. I had about 25 minutes to show up and shoot and this is what we came up with.





Now, I've never shot like this before, I've never done any panning work either so this was a learning experience.
I've also learned that if I were to keep up with this sort of photography, that I need a 24-70mm. I have a 24mm and a 50mm prime and in this case, I needed
varying length. 35mm would have probably been perfect.


In the end, the subject loved them, the casting director loved them, which is great and all, but I definitely needed more time to perfect the shots. While there's not much better locations
in terms of a backdrop, I need to find a freshly paved road. That was one bumpy ride.

 

[Derrel]

First shot is absolutely MONEY!!!! I love the exhaust pipes, the white line, the speed blur is danged near perfect. The bike looks great, the rider and tats and riding gear look great, the handlebars look great...everything is there. Maybe dodge his vest just a tiny bit, or not. The second frame's good, yes, but the first one is just super. Pretty hard to find fault with #1.

 

[Steve5D]

Wow, those are fantastic!

 

[gregtallica]

Those are AWESOME. First one, everything worked out just perfectly!

 

[BrandonLaw]

OP the bumpy road and the backdrop for these are fine they go right along with the SOA style! Great job on these shots I am in love with the first one they are badass! I LOVE SOA!

 

[leeroix]

Ya, those are reeeeeel nice man :thumbup:

 

[Ballistics]

I tell ya, didn't expect this response lol. Thanks for the kind words.

 

[Ilovemycam]

Xlnt!

 

[Ballistics]

Xlnt!

This took me way longer to figure out what this said than it should lol. But thank you.

 

[DiskoJoe]

First shot is absolutely MONEY!!!! I love the exhaust pipes, the white line, the speed blur is danged near perfect. The bike looks great, the rider and tats and riding gear look great, the handlebars look great...everything is there. Maybe dodge his vest just a tiny bit, or not. The second frame's good, yes, but the first one is just super. Pretty hard to find fault with #1.

Agreed. I would go with that one.

 

[Ballistics]

I agree, although they were both sent.

 

[DarkShadow]

Wow Ballistics theses are totally awesome. Wow one more time

 

[Ballistics]

Well thank you very much.

 

[tirediron]

Well done! :thumbup:

 

[ktan7]

Amazing shots!