Silver/black is SO fast....

Chain · 08-29-2003, 8:19 PM

....that you actually gotta sneak up on one to get a pic. I low-crawled through the tallgrass a half hour just to get close enough to mine to get this shot this morning.

PIC

ViciousRR · 08-29-2003, 8:34 PM

Are you a part time a amateur photographer? *Just wonder since you always have these crazy angles and ideas for taking pics.

Oh and just to prove that silver is slower, you can't even get that close to take a pic of the red ones... *

2OHOH2 · 08-29-2003, 8:34 PM

You nerd!

krash954 · 08-29-2003, 8:40 PM

Can you imagine some poor innocent bystander driving by seeing Chain ducked in the bushes on the side of the road with a camera. You must have looked like a Perv Chain!!! ...... But I agree, the s/b is the fastest!!!

Bacchus · 08-29-2003, 9:14 PM

'Silver/black is SO fast....'

You are in a serious, permanent delusional state! Red/black is the tits. Awesome pic though Chain

Oz · 08-29-2003, 9:55 PM

Freak.

Nice pic, but isn't this like the second week in a row with the same pipe on yer ride? What gives?

Chain · 08-29-2003, 10:45 PM

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Oz : Freak.

Nice pic, but isn't this like the second week in a row with the same pipe on yer ride? *What gives?

Yesindeedy, same can.

I'm a member of Team Stealth forever on...

fumbducker · 08-29-2003, 10:54 PM

'Silver/black is SO fast....'

Kids this is your brain on drugs...

Chain, if I may offer some serious advice...you have to stay out of the evidence room man. *You're going to end up in some serious sh!t otherwise. *If you're hooked, get help.
Think of the bright side, in rehab you can work on your photography skills and rid yourself of the silver/faster delusion at the same time!

If you need someone to talk to, I'm here fo...well... someone here might listen.

Oh yeah, nice pic too.

J

Chain · 08-29-2003, 11:11 PM

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ViciousRR : Are you a part time a amateur photographer? *Just wonder since you always have these crazy angles and ideas for taking pics.

I'd say I'm an amateur photography enthusiast, but I'm no expert. To me, what taking good photographs is all about is getting out of the 'snapshot' frame of mind and actually seeing the picture before you take it.

In my own words, my simple rules for taking quality photographs:

1) Always be aware of your light. It needs to be behind you (more or less) in order to bring out the most detail in the bike, but be mindful of your shadow.

2) Money-shot lighting is the soft, golden light cast in early morning or, preferably, late evening (right before sunset). Super bright sunlight, particularly in the heat of the day, washes out your bike (not to mention that the light will be coming from the overhead, not ideal).

3) Driveway and parking lot shots usually suck. There's too much in the background to distract the end-viewer from the subject matter. Consider what's behind your bike. Mail boxes, parked vehicles, a car coming down the street, oil stains on the pavement, light poles, etc all conspire to take away from the quality of the image.

4) Water and other scenery is sometimes a neat back ground for a bike photograph, but my favorite back drop when taking pictures of a motorcycle is a ribbony piece of pavement, bar none.

Check out the shot below. It incorporates alot of what I'm talking about...

There's no obvious 'pimple' in the picture which takes away from the subject matter; the starboard side of the bike is basked in light; there are various color and texture differences in the picture (the shiny black bike, the green switchgrass, the crushed gravel, the pristine road surface); and there is an interesting stretch of rolling, curving two-lane leading your eye away from the bike and off into the distance.

http://members.fireblades.org/chains...s/IMG_2195.JPG

I don't know if this helps (or if anyone really cares), but for what it's worth, that's what I do to take good bike pics.

Quiet954 · 08-29-2003, 11:30 PM

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Chain : oil stains on the pavement,

Chain, No matter how many times you mention it, Conq is still not even flinching...

bwhip · 08-30-2003, 12:02 AM

Is that where you usually hide with the radar gun?

stegen · 08-30-2003, 12:13 AM

what a dork!

ND4SPD · 08-30-2003, 12:38 AM

You really need to ride more. Cool pic though

ratter · 08-30-2003, 4:55 AM

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bwhip : Is that where you usually hide with the radar gun?

I can picture chain hiding on his belly in the grass waiting to catch some speedster on a red/black blade cause he is jealous of their speed

ratter · 08-30-2003, 4:57 AM

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Chain : ....that you actually gotta sneak up on one to get a pic. I low-crawled through the tallgrass a half hour just to get close enough to mine to get this shot this morning.

PIC

(elmur fud voice) 'be wery wery quite, were huntin silver baldes, ha ha ha'

Chain · 08-30-2003, 8:49 AM

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Quiet954 : Quote (Chain @ Aug. 29 2003, 9:11pm)oil stains on the pavement,

Chain, No matter how many times you mention it, Conq is still not even flinching...

Nothing gets past you, eh Quiet!?

Chain · 08-30-2003, 8:53 AM

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bwhip : Is that where you usually hide with the radar gun?

I don't have radar in my cruiser...

Chain · 08-30-2003, 8:56 AM

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ND4SPDSHO : You really need to ride more. *Cool pic though

Thanks for the kudo on the photo.

Actually, I ride as much as family, career, union biz and other duties allow. Typically I get ~6,000 miles in per year in my home state's normal 6 month riding season. I just combine my love for bikes with an interest in photography - my digital camera is either in my trunk or tank bag every time I go out.

freq · 08-30-2003, 10:38 AM

we have said it before, 'the boy got issues' nice work.

firedawgon929 · 08-30-2003, 11:11 AM

Quote Oh and just to prove that silver is slower, you can't even get that close to take a pic of the red ones...
Oh ... did he fail to mention this pic was taken on an angled hill with a 400X military grade zoom lens?

ViciousRR · 08-30-2003, 1:24 PM

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Chain : 2) Money-shot lighting is the soft, golden light cast in early morning or, preferably, late evening (right before sunset). Super bright sunlight, particularly in the heat of the day, washes out your bike (not to mention that the light will be coming from the overhead, not ideal).

Thats what the money shot is? Man I was way wrong... What I was told or seen, the money shot is on the

firedawgon929 - Why do you make up these false stories? tisk tisk..

firedawgon929 · 08-30-2003, 1:43 PM

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ViciousRR : firedawgon929 - Why do you make up these false stories? *tisk tisk.. * *

http://universitysuperbikes.org/iB_h...ticons/wow.gif ... who me??? neverrrr.

Oz · 08-30-2003, 3:03 PM

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Chain : Quote (bwhip @ Aug. 29 2003, 11:02pm)Is that where you usually hide with the radar gun?

I don't have radar in my cruiser...
Let me get this straight...they took away your radar gun, but let you keep the one that fires bullets?

Bacchus · 08-30-2003, 3:18 PM

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Chain : I don't have radar in my cruiser...

You're a State Trooper, and you don't have radar?! What gives? . Seriously curious here.

Chain · 08-30-2003, 6:45 PM

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Oz : Quote (Chain @ Aug. 30 2003, 7:53am)Quote (bwhip @ Aug. 29 2003, 11:02pm)Is that where you usually hide with the radar gun?

I don't have radar in my cruiser...
Let me get this straight...they took away your radar gun, but let you keep the one that fires bullets?
Our agency is large enough (750 sworn serving a population base of 400,000) that normal, calls-for-service cruisers don't have radar. Supervisors (such as myself) don't have radar either. I supervise a crew of nine 'grunt' police officers who respond to 911 emergencies and conduct preventive patrol in the downtown business district during the day shift. We have a separate Traffic Unit that handles all the speeding enforcement throughout the city. Smaller agencies aren't this specialized.

Chain · 08-30-2003, 6:46 PM

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Bacchus : Quote (Chain @ Aug. 30 2003, 4:53am)I don't have radar in my cruiser...

You're a State Trooper, and you don't have radar?! *What gives? * . *Seriously curious here.
See above.

Bacchus · 08-30-2003, 6:48 PM

So all of the motorsickles you've pulled over were paced? Have you paced any over 100mph?

Chain · 08-30-2003, 6:56 PM

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Bacchus : So all of the motorsickles you've pulled over were paced? *Have you paced any over 100mph?

I've been a cop for 15 years. There have been times in my career that I've had radar.

Besides, there are plenty of violations out there beyond speed infractions.

I've never chased a bike over 100, but I did have one pursuit out on the highway run 120 mph sustained speeds (carjacking suspect).

Beyote · 08-30-2003, 8:41 PM

Great pic, and I think the Silver and Black is the Daddy also.

Spank her once for me.