Today I thought I would try black on black. I have never really tried this, and I was keen to see how it would go. However, I had to first unpack my bicycle, which I had only half unpacked after I returned to Sydney from Hong Kong 13 months ago. It still had no pedals, and I had packed hard foam-rubber around the tubes to protect it, and they were still on it. I had also gaffer taped cardboard to the frame. I learned the hard way, gaffer tape comes off real easy in the first day or so, but 12 months later it is not so agreeable. So I spent the next 45 minutes cleaning gaffer residue off my head-tube and carbon seat-post, as well as off the top-tube, all the while trying not to scratch the black metallic (soft!) finish. Finally we have a bike with pedals, mostly clean finish, and most the bits found.. except the cover for the rear flasher, you can see the batteries in the pic :)
The end photo is ok. A little bit of levels in Photoshop. I'd like to have more specular light off the tubes but I had limited room for my softboxes, so the ideal angle was not possible. If I turned them toward the bike, the backdrop became visible. So this was the best I could do today.
Softbox (gridded) at 8:45 and 4:00 at 1/2 power, handheld snooted flash on a stand held at 12:00 at 1/32 power to get specular off top-tube. I like the possibilites here.
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