The Last Hurrah!! - A Pashnit Motorcycle Ride through California's Central Coast

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Alex and Bob - Bob was interested in getting info from the riders about their experiences with the Pashnit Ride for his article that he's writing about the Pashnit Motorcycle for an upcoming issue of City Bike Magazine.



Dale and Patrick take in the view



Pashnit headed off in search of a good photo

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Frank discussing the meaning of life with Alan


Photo by Bob

Photo Tip: A quick lesson in cropping. Can you tell the above photo is cropped at all? Probably not. Here is the original. A lot of dead space in this photo. But here is the original to compare. While the original is a great shot taken by Bob- if I want to focus more on the interaction b/n these two, I'll crop the shot, in turn, it changes the way the shot looks and feels.

Here's the original

Photo by Bob

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All the bikes and riders - it really was turning into a Motley Crew!



Everyone saying Hi !! Pashnit Motorcycle Tours !!!

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Bob says I'm ready to go get some lunch!



Alright then, let's ride!

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Dale shot some pics on the way down...

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Arriving at the Deer Lodge at the base of Highway 33 (near Ojai, CA)


Photo by Ayumi

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The Deer Lodge is a biker hangout that's been around since the 1930's. Quite a variety of bikes there, although predominantly Harleys.

This Indian was just georgeous!

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A lot of Harleys like these Heritage Softails.



Photo Tip: Cropping, as I've mentioned with the Frank-Alan shot, is a great tool after you take the shot. If you take a photo large enough, say 3 meg or larger (in file size), you can easily crop your photo to hone in more on your subject.

Take for instance this Chopper. Here is the original photo, not bad, I'd like to get rid of the lady in the photo- I could blend her into the background by 'photoshopping her out' or I can just crop the photo. Here is the original... not bad, but really busy, almost too much to look at. When you look at the pic, how many points of interest can you see, or are drawn to with your eyes?

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Here is one way to crop this photo... See how I cut out all the riff-raff in the pic, and now pull out the Chopper fork, which is quite becoming to look at.



Or, since the Chopper is so long, I could crop the photo this way, stretching the photo a bit. This photo is just slightly wider than the one above, but looks very different.

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Or this... Going lower pulls out the two wheels & the two motors, which is framed by the long fork.



Photo Tip: Here's Bob's photo of the same thing. Note that Bob is standing slighly left of where I was (I'm actually standing out in the street). (Remember the suggestion to shoot 2-3 pics of the same thing, but from slightly different angles) From where Bob is standing, his photo is consistent with the angle of the fork. So in a sense, he's finding a place to stand where his photo flows with the position of the Chopper.

In the Pashnit Photo, I line up on the angle between the fork & the front frame tube- so I am doing something very similar in finding an angle to shoot the bike that flows with the motorcycle. Also note that Bob & I both have positioned the camera pretty low, and are shooting into the Chopper, rather than just standing and shooting down on it. This way, the Copper also fills up the camera frame.