Note the booties. Don’t want to mess up that nice white floor
Hemmings Muscle Machines subscribers will shortly get in the mail their May 2008 issue with a nice wide-angle studio shot of Ralph Barbagallo‘s A12 Road Runner. It’s a great image shot by a great photographer, Dino Petrocelli in his Latham, New York, studio. Chopper guys might recognize Dino’s name; his work has appeared on countless chopper magazine covers and he’s probably photographed the Orange County Choppers guys more than most photographers have. He’s only recently started to shoot cars in his studio, which as you can see above, was really built for bikes. He makes it work, though.
Obligatory shot of the owner shooting the shooter, minus the shooter
I had a chance to view the shoot of Ralph’s A12, and though I’ve shot in a studio before, it’s always a treat to get to see another photographer at work and to pick up tips here and there. It’s also interesting to note the differences between studio photography, where you control pretty much every aspect of the shoot, from lighting to backgrounds, and the semi-guerrilla on-location photography that we typically do at Hemmings, where in comparison we control very little of the location. Each has its advantages; each has its disadvantages.
Unfortunately, Ralphie didn’t do a burnout in the studio, despite Dino claiming that he takes bike burnout shoots in the studio all the time.