David Blaine?

edwardvarla

How do they take these pics of the bikes standing up?

For example:
http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/tech/probike.php?id=/photos/2007/tech/probikes/tour_cancellara_csc_cervelo/Fabian_Cancellaras_Team_CSC_Cervelo_SLC-SL_full_view

Cheers

Edward

Big Red S

There's two common ways:

1) Lean it on a discreet stick.

2) Hold it up, let go and run away, take the photo just as it starts to fall.

IsledeBlanc

not sure, are the wheels supported in the ground somehow?

RichN95.

It's leaning on a stick which you can see in this picture

http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/tech/probike.php?id=/photos/2007/tech/probikes/tour_cancellara_csc_cervelo/Fabian_Cancellaras_Team_CSC_Cervelo_SLC-SL_front_hub

It probably gets airbrushed out in some of the photos.

powenb

Eyes or a hawk there RichN. well done.

edwardvarla

Nice one, thanks. Having a 7 kilo bike helps I guess!

Sanyi

Sometimes they use fine fishing line depending on the background and sunlight. Invisible against concrete and other lighter backgrounds.

Adam Tranter

A lot of the photos are taken when people run away and the photo is taken before the bike falls.

jibi

I walked away, made a meal, had a fag

Then took the photo

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/imjibi/So ... 8690188306



george

Aperitif 51

jibi wrote:

I walked away, made a meal, had a fag

Then took the photo

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/imjibi/So ... 8690188306



george

...one of the few bog standard photos in your album George - I enjoyed nosing through. Thanks.

jibi

Aperitif 51 wrote:

jibi wrote:

I walked away, made a meal, had a fag

Then took the photo

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/imjibi/So ... 8690188306



george

...one of the few bog standard photos in your album George - I enjoyed nosing through. Thanks.

Seems you are the same as me then
when someone puts a link to a post I can't resist looking through the album

there's a lot of porn on picasa I have found out :shock: :shock:
george

Johnny Ergo

The last person who asked me that question ended up at the side of the road as you see!

cougie

Sometimes they have a perspex glass that they rest a pedal on.

I think a lot of them are paintshopped now.

In the current climate of media honesty - I expect full disclosure of all this, and that they will come clean to say that they cant balance bikes really....

John Stevenson

Steve Behr uses a perspex rod.

But the standard trick is indeed to have an assistant let go of the bike, photographer hits the shutter, then assistant grabs the bike before it falls.

This is *much* easier than Photoshop, though I have Photoshopped the odd supporting finger out of bike shots over the years.

emadden

Its normally something solid under the pedal on the side away from the camera. The "item" can then be removed very easily in Photoshop or other imaging software using the "stamp" tool... :-)