Cameron Hanson photography: South west motorcycles

For my "person at work" brief i decided to pursue my love for motor sport photography as one of the 3 people,After having a look around online and asking the local people i found that there aren't actually any racetracks as such in the area that i can get to via the transport available and so i decided to try and find a different angle at which i could still capture motorcycles.West coast motorcycles is a garage in Penryn that specializes in motorcycles and so i contacted them.
The following monday i took my camera (Nikon D5500 with my 18-140mm kit lens) and began to build up a relationship with the two men working there,At first the whole scene was awkward and the younger mechanic was clearly uncomfortable with having the lens pointing in his direction.I find this happens a lot when i go to photograph events or business and so i began to talk to him and ask about various things that really are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things but it gave me the chance to get his guard down and that's when i could really begin to work. Some of the images i took where quite covert simply because i took those early and didn't want to get in his face too much.despite this i think some of the early photos are the most creative and dynamic. I took around 80 images as i wanted to make sure i captured every angle of the garage and its atmosphere as i feel that the atmosphere can tell as much of a story as the people can.

The lighting i found was tough to work with and i found my self working in relatively high ISO settings to allow me to keep the aperture wide enough to capture an aesthetically pleasing depth-of-field.