[Closed] How do people get their bicycle to stand up whilst it has it's photo taken????

Photoshop stick or they are so light they barely touch the ground anyway & float just above it

Rest it on a stone/bottle/stick then photoshop.

Either that or have a mate balance it then when they move take the picture before it falls!

have a mate balance it then when they move take the picture before it falls!

This - fact, you're not able to photograph bikes if you have no friends.

Can you not make objects levitate through the power of your mind?

Tsk! You humans..... 🙄

There are 2 bits of lead block glued to the back of those wheel rims 😉

Hold it up with thin thread, ie fishing line. It would be barely visible in the photo.

Balance it, quickly run into position and take a photo before it hits the ground.

EDIT: Bollocks, someone else beat me to it! 😆

Someone on this thread has it right 🙂

Really thin wires holding it up from above like a Thunderbird. Totally the way I do it...

be brave, Ghostie it 😉

Get a mate to balance it then jump out of shot. I've also used a tripod and self-timer when I was on my own. Wait for the beeps and jump.

sharkattack - Member
Get a mate to balance it then jump out of shot. I've also used a tripod and self-timer when I was on my own. Wait for the beeps and jump.

Photoshop would be a damn sight easier though.

Hang it from a tree..

They buy a "finite area gravimetric field generator/nullifier" which runs on a couple of AA batteries and causes the local area gravity to be reduced to zero, allowing the bike to remain standing for the photo.

Or, they use a bit of string/fishing line........ 😉

put the bike on it's back then turn the camera round. 😉

You're all wrong. Clearly that bike is 50ft long and they're simply leaning the saddle against the red brick building

If its balanced, sureley it would be faling over and be a bit blurry????

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jedi mind control....thats how you do it 😆

There's an old Billy Connoly sketch that explains it all............

It's all an optical illusion - we simply pay a street artist to draw the background directly on the pavement and lay the bike on it - I believe the makers of Batman in the 60's used a similar method to give the impression Adam West was sober enough to climb a rope.

From the same thread that the OP's photo was taken, how did they take the picture on this one:
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🙂
RM.

I make use of what ever is around me, usually no shortage of these around here..

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Its all done with a green screen then the background is added later just like in the films.

What like this one?
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(old bike, old photo!)

A little trick I learnt many years ago 🙂

What like this one?

Yes, although that one does look a bit as if it is about to fall over..............

What like this one?

Looks like the pedal is on an upturned glass.

rp16v - Member

Hang it from a tree..

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attach a piece of string and get a Gull to hold it
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Fatbikes genuinley do stand up on their own.

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All the studio shots at Bespoked were held up by helper who let go for a few seconds on command from photographer. No bikes or helpers were injured.

OP: That bike belongs to Dynamo.

Plenty of sticky brown stuff this time of year to hold bikes up....
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Claude Rains* is quite good at track stands.

* other invisible men might suffice

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I go up a hill on a really windy day and balance the bike against the wind while I take a photo...

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The first time some magazine guys took some pics of our bikes they they described it as a 'drop shot'. It took 2 of them and it was suggested I might want to look away when they did it!

[s]A bent piece of wire supporting the rearward facing pedal work, generally hidden by the rear tyre. Better than letting go IMHO.

Stick under pedal hidden by tyre 😉

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Gravity.....

Gravity.....

You sir, are a genius

natrix - Member

You sir, are a genius

Nah, I pilfered the idea from elsewhere... 😳

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Looks like the pedal is on an upturned glass.

Bravo Chip, you go it 🙂

There was a thing in the "outro" bit of a pretty old issue of Singletrack, probably around 2004, where they had a little behind the scenes shot of Dave Anderson holding onto a wheel on one side and someone holding onto the wheel on the other side waiting for the photographer to yell "now" so they could jump out of the way.

Mark - Resident Grumpy
Someone on this thread has it right