On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've realized two things tonight: > > You folks are a bad influence. > Photographing bicycles is difficult. > > I've had this bike, in various incarnations, since the summer of '79 when I > pulled the frame out of a friend's basement. I could write a small book > about all the things I've done with, and to, it. > > The highlight was probably when I rode the Davis Double Century on it in May > of '81, although the previous fall I did ride a metric double century on it, > without a front derailleur, or for that matter any training since the DC the > previous May. There have been several times that I have decided that it was > no longer worth fixing the bike up, and that I should just buy a new bike. > I only bought a new bike once, but I always seem to find some excuse to get > her back on the road. > > The frame is a Legnano. An Italian company that at one point went out of > business sometime in the late sixties. It may have been since resurrected, > but I'm fairly sure that the frame is somewhere between 40 and 50 years old. > You may note a big, rusty, bolt at the intersection of the seat tube and the > top tube. Legnano had a very clever, for Italian values of clever, method of > tightening down the seat. I've never owned the proper clamp widget, so I > kluged something up that more or less works. > > I tried several lighting setups. I ended up with the WL10,000 studio strobe > fairly high up, shooting through an umbrella. I tried various shots with my > Sigma 20, FA31 and DFA50/2.8. > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623085248314/
Cool pix of a lovely bike. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
