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- Probably the most popular Instagram post for a GMBN fan
is gonna be the Bike Vault shot, right?
So this is how you will get your bike in the Bike Vault
and you get the best possible shot,
no matter what you're shooting it with.
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So firstly, you're gonna need a good clear background.
You don't want a distracting background.
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And there's sometimes
you can lean the bike up against a nice wooden panelled shed
or something like that and it could look cool.
But generally,
you wanna just drop the background out of shot completely.
Secondly, you wanna get your pedals at three o'clock,
so they're nice and horizontal and flat.
Look nice and good.
Get your tyre logos lined up, straight.
And then of course you got to prop your bike up.
We've seen people propping their bikes up
with a pedal and a helmet, and you're like,
"It's not very good for your helmet."
Your helmet's a protective aid for your head
so try and keep it that way.
The best thing to use is simply a stick.
So, what I tend to use is a little perspex stick.
Bit of a magic photographer's trick because
in the photo you can barely see these are there
and they're very easy to clone out.
But just to demonstrate to you,
I'm not gonna use this today.
I've actually propped my bike up
just with a stick I found at the side of the trail.
Just snapped off the very end of it,
just to give it a rough edge
so it can just grip on the disc rotor here.
And since it's a little bit windy what I've done
is just take a couple of these little pebbles
and I've just wedged them like chucks
just underneath the wheel, but on this side of the bike,
and I'm gonna shoot from that side so you can't see them,
but it just stop it rolling anywhere.
Great top tip that one.
And then I'm just gonna tell you about some camera settings
and how to get the best results for your camera.
First up we'll talk about the GoPro.
'Course you can get a really nice shot with my bike here
usin' the GoPro, and you'll get a lot of scenery.
But if you go too close to the bike
to try and get some detail,
due to the wide angle nature of the lens
it's gonna distort the bike and it looks a bit strange.
Can be fun to get some quirky results, but really,
you're never gonna get the best Bike Vault shot
usin' the GoPro.
So let's move on to the phone.
Again it's quite a wide lens,
and the best recommendation for gettin' a shot
nice and crisp of this is to frame it a little bit wide,
you can always crop in.
And I'd actually go down quite low
because you want to try and get
some of the foreground in shot here.
If you're too high
then it's not gonna cut the bike out against the sky nicely.
And if you look on screen now,
you just see an example of how this can look
just using a phone.
And that's an unedited image, straight out the camera.
However, if you're lucky enough
to have a DSLR or compact camera,
this is where you can get some really amazing results.
So firstly we'll just look at the compact camera.
So most compacts that you would take around on holiday,
for example, are gonna have a decent zoom lens on them.
So to get the best result you wanna zoom in,
but make sure on your camera it's not a digital zoom.
It's in an actual optical zoom so the lens moves.
You do this, you zoom in,
and you step backwards to frame the bike nicely,
and that's gonna compress that background
so the bike really pops off the page.
So I haven't got a zoom on my little compact camera,
but this has got 50 millimetre lens.
So the same thing, I'm gonna step back
so the bike fills the frame of the image
and I'm gonna shoot this at f2,
which is the lowest number my lens will go to,
just to really accentuate that.
So the bike's gonna be pinch up and just pop off the page.
So I've got a moveable screen on the back of my compact here
so it just enables me to tilt it and look down.
But I'm puttin' the camera down nice and low.
I'm just gettin' some blurred out rocks in the foreground,
so it just helps frame the image.
Ah, there's mint. (bulb horn honks)
See look on screen now.
This is a shot that I've just got
with my little Fuji camera.
But if you got a DSLR,
you're gonna be able to get some alternative results
to this again.
So on this particular one I've got 24-70 zoom on here.
And I'm just gonna put on-screen the shot at 24
and the shot at 70, just so you can see the difference.
So you always wanna zoom in for this sort of shot
so it really draws attention to your bike.
And really, that is the best bike photo shot you can get.
So hopefully this Instagram feature's
been pretty handy for you.
It's gonna help you capture some really amazing shots.
The final point to make is about editin' your photos.
Always go with the notion of less is more.
It's really easy to put too many effects on there
and just ruin the shot.
If you need to, maybe bring the shadows up
or just add a bit of vibrance,
but try and keep it as natural as you can.
For a couple more really great videos,
if you wanna know more about my pro bike, the Mega here,
click right down here.
And if you wanna about making your own video edit
on a similar vain to this Instagram video, click up here.
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