As many of you were curious how the motion effect of this series was made, let me show you some behind the scenes shots about it. The Rebrick contest allowed only 5 photos to be submitted, I wanted at least one of them to be really dynamic and to show the motorcycle in motion. I had some vague ideas at the beginning how this can be achieved, but with the help of some household items and leftover furniture pieces the following setup was born:
The upper structure can move on the IKEA rolling plant stand turned upside down. The support holding the bike is built on a large base plate. This is how it looks without the motorcycle (the white piece of wood could be used as a handle to move the upper part back and forth):
The motorcycle had an additional stand that goes into the hole in the “road” which is a large piece of gray photo background paper. Tyre marks and other road surface marks are hand drawn, the finish line is made of electrical tape. The motorcycle with the stand:
And the complete setup assembled:
The “road” piece could be moved back a forth a couple of centimeters. That was enough motion to achieve the desired effect – with a shutter speed of 1/3 sec the road was blurry enough and the wheels had the necessary amount of motion to have a nice result:
