shooting my scooter in an hour. Advice needed

first thing to say im a beginner so i need advice on how to get this rite. Im gonna shoot my wifes scoot in the studio today. I have a seamless black paper background and for the rest of the gear please check my signature.
I need advice / ideas on how to position both the bike and lights to get satisfactory results. I was thinking dead on from the sides and front and dead on with the bike at a 45 deg (horizontal) angle with the wheel turned. Am i making a mistake by wanting them all dead on from the bikes perspective, or should i do a few from a higher perspective?
I also need advice on positioning the strobes and speedlight. I was thinking the typical beginner camera left and camera right with the strobes and have the speedlight against the backdrop for seperation and gradient. Should the strobes be dead on or high up and tilted down. I noticed most shoots i see the lights are always high up in the air and facing down. Why is that?
Thank you for assisting. If i get any good ones i will post them here.

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Ya i dont have equipment like that lol. I was thinking more along the lines of basic beginner stuff like composition and stuff

Done, so i just learnt that for it to look any good at all, one needs to have lighting in all 4 corners. Since i only had 2 it didnt work out too well. also i think black seamless is not a good colour to use for this. Wishing i had white. Oh well lesson learned. If i didnt do it i would never have known rite.

You didn't need "equipment like that". The point of that link was to show the technique that we used, which was to put the light on something else that would put reflections of that light in the bike.

Maybe next time you could give us some more time for more detailed advice?

PhotosGuy wrote in post #11929157
You didn't need "equipment like that". The point of that link was to show the technique that we used, which was to put the light on something else that would put reflections of that light in the bike. Maybe next time you could give us some more time for more detailed advice?

im gonna do a reshoot next week since this one was a failure. This time gonna use a white background. So this thread is still open for ideas . untill then i will study your link more closely.

if you have 2 lights you could always take multiple exposures and blend them in photoshop, actually only one light is needed. use the 430