Bicycle Photography 101: How to Take a Picture of Your Bike

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Bicycle photography is important, but that doesn’t mean it has to be complicated or expensive. Today I’m covering just a few simple tips that can drastically improve the quality of photos you’re able to take of your bikes without too much effort and time.

You don’t need studio lights or the best camera on the market. By using ambient natural light, propping the bike up with a stick, and just a few other tips, we can get pretty good results pretty easily.

Two sources that taught me a lot of what I know on this subject:
– For bicycle photography specifically: John Watson (
– For photography more generally: Jared Polin (

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1 Comment
  1. Active Atom says

    Hi nice to see your photo shared video, we just shoot natural post on Instagram, but we do have a photo booth for our small machined parts, almost all photos we upload are natural and indoor mostly, we stopped fighting the camera and we like the results, as just shoot and upload them.
    Your beginning photos you shard looked nice in natural time of day lighting as well.

    Thank you for the share and allowing us to share what we do, Lance & Patrick

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