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

That is all for now.

Yup the problem was (they've been sold now) if I had the Campag logo's on the hubs both facing forward (the shield) then the stickers on the rims would be in opposite directions.

If the hub logos were as they should be, reading from the right, one of the rims was laced the wrong way round. 'It makes no difference'; the rim label position is subject to the operator/machinery at the factory. Rigida don't always put labels over the rim joint. :-(

Tel, apologies. I've copied, pasted, and mullered;

Aesthetic examples:

• Tyre labels in line with tyre innertube valves.
  
• Quick releases both on non drive side.
  
• Saddle horizontal to the ground
  
• bottom of drops horizontal to the ground/or lined up to point at the rear brake. I read it in the internetz.
  
• One neat strip of tape around the bar tape to finish of
  
• hub logo on front hub should face the same as rear and read from the right.
  -Rim labels should read from the right.
  -Cable routing to be as neat as neat can be.
  -Seat and bar tape to be the same colour. Or not. It depends.
  etc, etc
  
  
  

Photographing

• Valves both at the lowest point, highest point or somewhere else as long as they're in the same place. Can be hidden to astound if no tyre labels present.
  
• logo on crankset should be upright
  -Photograph should be from the right.
  -Geared bikes should have chain on big ring.
  -seat post should show sufficiently, but bars & saddle to be same height. (Rando-luv)
  -pedals should be fixed in the ridden position, not at rest. (by tightening bearings just for the shot. Ha.)
  -Angle of shot should be such that lh drop is all but hidden by rh drop.
  -Downtube shifters should be parallel.
  -Either lh crank to be in line with seat tube, or rh crank in line with chain stay, ahead or behind bottom bracket. In line with something anyways.
  -Background to be unconfusing. And any lines to speak to frame tubing.
  etc, etc
  
  
  
  

This thread didn't take off;
http://www.lfgss.com/thread10370.html
but it has another link to photo-anality.