Barns, 'Lone Wolf' (A biker with no patch and thus not riding with a club), sits on his Triumph Bonneville.

Far removed from the world of news and documentary images that are virtually untouched after being created this series of portraits of bikers uses a combination of photographic technique and photo shop to create an illusion.

Clearly all of the work I shoot for EPA adheres to the strict principles of news photography and photojournalism where the only adjustments to images is a resizing and some subtle burning and dodging.

With this series of images I wanted to try something different and came up with the concept of shooting portraits of biker friends of mine.

I shot four different images of the biker from exactly the same view point and with the same lens and obviously same camera.

During the process I framed the top-left then top-right then bottom-right and finally bottom-left of the ‘image’ in front of me.

Then in the modern day dark room;Photo shop 7; I created a blank background in white and copy and pasted the four images onto that white background.

Finally after moving them into place and trying to match the four images as best I could I flattened them into one layer and the final ‘image’ was created.

More from the series can be viewed under ‘ Portraits: Bikers’ @: www.kim.co.za