ever since accidently discovering the "nightscene" mode on my camera, have become obsessed with taking pictures of grifters at night with varying (ie almost no) degree of success

this is the best effort so far, batteries on the camera just as i was about to put the grifter in different "poses"  

street grifter woooo!

Superb pic mate! where was it taken, reminds me of devon! heres one of mine in blackpool and the mk1 in southport! old pics but good ones, hope weather improves and i too can take some new ones

took the picture on bournemouth prom on one of my "fitness training rides" (trying to shift a bit of the gut!)  

REALLY like your 1st picture - looks really professional! if that hasn't been on previous years grifter calender it should definately be in this years, front cover even!!    
fingers crossed for the weather i'm looking forward to some more top quality grifter pics!

ps the street grifter out street/prom grifting!  thinking of putting one of those red led lights on the front - knightrider style

Bournemouth eh? nice!!   glad you like the pics, in a way they are professional! the originals are below, our fellow member SUPERGRIP is a professional photographer, i took the orignal pics on two of my little jaunts, but he airbrushed and highlighted them to the results you have seen    he also did a poster one too (see below) thanks for the compliment, the bronze mk1 pic was (i believe) shortlisted for the calender, at least the silver mk2 made it, i think a red light on the front would look the dogs twitcher!!   i too hope the weather clears so i can post some new pics up!! regards, gaz.

thats where i'd seen your pic before - on the poster!  that looks incredible - literally lost for words!! i thought it was a real grifter poster and a good one at that!  kudos to all involved    

haven't been out grifting since i took that photo - weather has been horrific, rain, wind, wind and rain - even in "sunny dreamtown"!

thanks i know what you mean about the weather, it now getting colder and very wet here in preston, lancs. Cobwebs are forming on my MK1 (no really!, they really are!)  

love that beach pic,its fantastic.. will have to try and get some night shots too..mind that a tripod should be used,another tip is use the timer function that way you limit any hand shake as night shots always need a long exposure if you dont want the pic to be very grainy.

Thanks, glad you like, i look forward to seeing a good night shot of your bike valeter, if the weather ever gets better i will be taking some too!!!

yea cool iam itching to get some motorway flyover  long exposure type shots ,the type that give great traffic light trails,used to do them a lot when i used a canon eos film camera,so interested to try digital.ive been doing a lot of black and white lately but colour is good in autumn and esp if its night shots

 wasn't even raining yesterday evening so blasted out for a quick streetgrift and took the camera for some more night pics.  sadly, being an absolute novice i don't possess a tripod - just have to balance the camera on something near by and hope for the best (as a result all the pictures i take end up more or less on the p**s   )




this one came out a bit weird for some reason - but i think i like it!



looking forward to seeing everyone else's "night pics"  

ps i remember a superb nightpicture which i think was done by hotrodzombie - it actually moved!! can't remember which thread it was under though  

excellent pictures Mike  

Superb pics mate, love the "weird pic" looks like the grifter has just landed on mars oh some other distant planet..... cool  

fantastic pics,i really like the MARS type one.good work.ps get a tripod from jessops or argos for around 15 quid

cheers for the feedback guys - the "mars" picture came out quite by accident, i've no idea why it came out "weird" or how i could to do it again (took this one just after but from a slightly different angle, its come out more normal)



might as well post this one up as well, although it came out a bit dissapointing



might investigate a tripod but would be a bit cumbersome to take along when grifting unless i crack out the XL with the handy carry rack feature  

still looking forward to seeing some more "nightscene" pics...

cool pics,there very sci fi.yea tripods are bit of a pain to carry,you would need to carry a big ish rucksack ,but your getting fab pics with out it?what kind of camera is it that your using?takes bloody good pics

you need a Gorilla pod!

http://www.joby.com/uk

checked out the "gorillapod" on the bay - might invest in one next payday! looks pretty handy!  probably better than my current system of balancing the camera on a wall, the ground, a bin, etc. etc.

cheers valeter - the camera is an "olympus camedia C-480 zoom 4 megapixel" know nothing at all of photography and my dad got me this a couple of years ago, does seem alright though.  here's a picture without me resizing it on "microsoft paint" - sorry if it comes out massive:

The weird effect looks like a car drove through the shot on a long exposure, car lights and such can give great effects on long exposure images, the light trails stay visible, but the cars blur away.