Bicycle Aesthetics and Photography - How to take photos of your bike

I have just moved my rear tyre round 3 or 4 inches to get some new skid patches and it feels wrong to have it un-aligned with the valve.

However tightness > aesthetics in this case.

You didn't need to move the tyre round, just moving the chain a few links over the cog achieves the same thing.

any bike really!!!

Works for me!

Personally I like crank in line with chainstay, saddle and bars level, valves lined up with logos, not necessarily at bottom, prefer at about 10 o clock. I prefer fixed bikes shot brakless, geared bikes in a high gear with taut chain, shifters in line, and if not a lot of seatpost showing maybe pull it out a bit, and there's a get particular amount of quill stem that should be showing. Pedals should be nice clip and strap if bike is classic or fixed. Background should contrast the bike, white bike in white garage door for example would be fail.

That is all for now.