Studio @ Bigtwin Bikeshow 2009

Cool! The first time for me doing studio work... and not just a little try out or something, but about 100 show-bikes of the Bigtwin Bikeshow 2009 from each side, in detail and with the owner on it too! There are some little improvements to do for another time, but I have to admit this taste for more :-)

The improvised photo-studio. Something different than the outdoor-work that I'm used to do :-)







The desk started to look like a big collection of rubbish after 4 days








Hmmm... not bad, isn't it?






A bike of about four metres long, it hardly fitted! (this bike won the best oddity trophee, by the way)







Had some weird guests...











Also did some photo's of a professional fashion-model, thanks to www.roosvanleent.com






And I was proud to have the world's best customizers in front of my cam. These are Piet Kaggchel Customs from the netherlands!!







Also did some photo's of the bikeshow and dealer expo this year. Will update some of this stuff soon...

Motorcycle Recue

Visited Motorcycle Rescue today. These guys have passion for old Harleys exclusively! U models, Liberators and everything up to the Panhead and early Shovel is their speciality. Coincidently at the moment they were frshing-up the engine of Thunderbike's Build-A-Billy bobber. That bike is a beauty, I can tell you!!





















Tomorrow is the big day! You'll find me at the Bigtwin Bikeshow in the photo-studio! See you there :-)

Ultima bobber

Most bobbers are based on old Harley V-twins. But Don from Amersfoort had other ideas! A slim-looking bobber with much horse-power was his whish and so he made this rigid Ultima-based old skool chopper!

Used two strobes to under expose the windowns at the background and fill the shades in Don's face)

Short Cut Triumph

Finally I got this Short Cut Triumph in front of my camera! Tjeerd from Short Cut Choppers is usually creates Jap-based Samurai choppers in the tradition of Bratstyle. This raw Triumph is something different than he usually does, but it's my favourite!


Two bare strobes are used to give the bike this bright look

Bigtwin november

It’s now exacly a year ago that the famous late-night photo of Philip’s BSA, made at the Scheveningen Beach, hit the cover of Bigtwin magazine. It’s this time a portrait of the Belgian guy Erkki which is on the shelves of every fuel-station and magazine-shop for a month!


Cool cover photo, isn't it? Studio lights on location did the trick.











The photo-location was the place where Erkki works. They make enormous drilling machines there for digging tunnels and holes in the ground.





Also Wally’s streetfighter/bobber Honda Shadow is featured this month. The deep blue paintwork looks great due to the studio lights which we used on location






Can’t wait to see the feature of these South East classics, owned by Melanie and Arthur. The photo looks really stylish as if it’s for a clothing-advertisement. Two off-shoe speedlights are located at both sides of the car to get this result. Although the weather was very dull and dark, the photo’s turned out crazy!



Nick is a 18 year young guy and for a low budget he bolted together this awesome old skool Sportster.

Jannot's dragstar

Jannot from Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, proofed with this clean and uncluttered Dragstar that it is possible to make a cool bobber with simple interventions. Just as happened with the primal bobbers, Jannot chopped, hacked and sawed every unnecesary part off this dragstar and so made a bad-to-the-bone bobber with hot-rod looks.

It's all about light...







Some arty farty shot of Jannot's cool helmet







Wide angle, yeah baby!!

Well, Blue...

Hi Blue, the weather in England was actually really nice, during the Triumph Rocket III introduction in Hinckley! :-)