Philly Bike Expo

[kirkt]

Local bike show this weekend. A friend of mine is a bike builder in Philadelphia (Engin Cycles) and he exhibited some of his recent work at the Philly BIke Expo in preparation for the North American Hand Built Show in a few months. I started shooting with flash but got nowhere and realized that my new 5D Mk2 was supposed to do a good job at high ISO (duh!). So I shot natural light in the venue and did some post work. I think it generated some nice images. These images were shot at about ISO 3200 with varying crazy lighting conditions and dynamic range issues.

Previously I shot a 360°x180° pano of his workshop that we ended up getting dye sub printed in black and white at 20 ft by 8 ft on fabric for the exhibit backdrop. It made for a pretty cool backdrop for shots of the magnificent paint on his bikes.

This was a great learning experience with respect to what the 5D Mk2 can do.

Kirk


The exhibit floor - 29'er in the foreground


Cross


Road


CIty

[kirkt]

Here's a wide shot of the exhibit:



THe orange bike in the foreground is a lugged 29'er single speed, with 953 stainless main tubes.



Kirk

[Biffbradford]

That's pretty neat. Pink and brown?

[theextremist04]

I'd be all over one of those... that orange CX frame looks pretty awesome. And I've been wanting a steel 29er for a while now.

[bensherman2]

Nice bikes, wish I had a buddy who was a frame builder. Not sure on the colour scheme of pink and brown but don't Foot on have something similar?

[kirkt]

Pink and Brown ... well, that's what the customer wanted. The builder tries very hard to walk a line between the paint he would like and the customer's vision of what they would like. That pink and brown gets ridden a lot - you can see the black transfer on the lower edge of the fender.

FYI, here is Engin's website:

http://www.engincycles.com

if you are interested in his work. Although he has done some one-offs in other material, pretty much everything is steel. I'd like a stem and fork for my aging IF cross bike, but no dice. He only makes stems and forks when you have him build the frame.

Kirk

[WatsonLu]

Ahh i'm lovin that 29er, I wonder what it weighs with that XX setup and Stans wheels