Cycling - just everyday riders

[dave lackey]

But not everyday images. Film noir, contre jour, abstracts, motion, anything creative.

Working on a project that needs a lot of review of cycling photos that grab you when you see them. That means something out of the ordinary. I hate the usual cycling photos one sees. Older folks dressed like Lance Armstrong, a hundred cyclists all in a line, snapshot styles, blech!😛

With those kinds of photos, how does anybody expect to convert someone to riding a bicycle? Let alone sell a book.😀

Since I learn a lot about images by looking at a lot of images, can you folks post your best cycling photos? A lot of riders around here are depending onyour input!:angel:

 

[keytarjunkie]

I don't have any decent cycling photos, but these guys have various projects on the subject of cycling (they are both avid riders). Jake Stangel shoots for Rapha (1 and 2), and Emiliano Granado shot a project for Castelli focused around two awesome cycling teams.

 

[MickH]

This is one of the most evocative photo's related to cycling I've seen for many a year.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=148473

 

[ebolton]

I've got a bunch of these from a triathlon that went by my house last year. Didn't know it was coming, and I don't know any of the riders. I just had fun shooting them.


Random Triathlete 0157 by ed_bltn, on Flickr

This was from the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Criterium last year. Not everyday per se, but I think there is a race every day somewhere>

Trippy 0637 by ed_bltn, on Flickr

 

[ebolton]

... I hate the usual cycling photos one sees. Older folks dressed like Lance Armstrong, a hundred cyclists all in a line, snapshot styles, blech!😛

With those kinds of photos, how does anybody expect to convert someone to riding a bicycle? !

By the way, I agree with the sentiment 100%. I don't ride anymore, at least temporarily, but I hate the usual cycling pictures. On the local club century this year, a photographer set up to shoot the riders going by, and most of the shots were taken with an automated camera. To my eye, they absolutely sucked. Depth of field was pretty much infinite, probably a function of the equipment and the need to get images of people anywhere on the road in the field of view of the camera with the automation. There was no real composition, and you saw pictures of people that barely stood out from the bland background. They were charging people $25 for a 5x7, with more expensive packages available. I can only assume they had some takers.