Conclusion

My project has developed from peoples aspirations to be my personal aspiration in my teenage years. I began to look into bicycle culture and the idea as the bike as a fashion accessory. I researched in depth into portraiture and visit the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize which directed my to focus on the riders. During a conversion with my hairdresser I realised that all cyclists have one thing in common, hoarding. All cyclists keep everything they buy, even a piece of broken kit will be kept as a memory or even to show you bravery. I decided I wanted to show this hoarding in the final images yet the cluttered style it would create was not particularly aesthetic. So for my final images I have 5; I have a self portrait of myself with all my hoarded equipment and then selected the 4 main disciplines of the sport which are; BMX, Downhill, fixed gear and road. I developed a style over this project, I used low depth of field on a prime lens and used softbox lighting. I underexposed the background by 2 stops to make the subject pop out of the image.

Overall I am pleased with this project, to pursue this project further I would potentially make a book of more images of cyclists. In an exhibition I would display the images as shown in a previous post and have them printed A1

Images Printed

I have been advised by Su to print the final images at A4 which I have done. For an exhibition I would print the shots much bigger, ideally A1 and printed onto Aluminium for stylish effect.

Final Tutorial

All went well, I need to reshoot or edit jacks shot to bring it up to the standard of the others.

gallery

display

Bikers are into Blogging

http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/features/top-50-cycling-blogs-2010/comment-page-1/#comment-5173

How My Project has developed

My Project started as dreams and aspirations of people I would talk to, I had 4 main themed ideas and aimed to show them in a portraiture method. As the project developed I began to focus on my own dream, cycling. It is my main hobby so not a dream as such but I decided to look into bicycle culture as it does relate to aspirations but changed the title to bicycle culture. I found lots of imagery of the riders in motion but wanted to pick the riders out. I set up location shoots using lighting and a technique which Nick Lockett taught me of underexposing the backdrop to make the model pop out which I found very effective. I used my canon 400D with a prime 50mm lens to achieve low depth of field and a 430ex flash gun for my lighting.