Steve Giralt

In celebration of my getting back onto my bike to start training again since my accident 3 months ago I decided to photograph my bike before shipping it down to Miami where I will be training for the Miami International Triathlon. It really is a beautifully designed bicycle. It’s a 2008 Trek Madone 5.2 frame with 2008 Zipp 404 and 808 aero wheels, Selle SMP Pro saddle, Profile Design Carbon stryke aero bars, and a Powertap SL+ in the rear wheel. It’s such a great ride!

It took some cleaning to get my bike which has 1000+ miles on it look this new. I hope you enjoy the photos.

A lot of people have said they really enjoy when I put up pictures of the sets and show how I did the lighting. This is a lighting test I did of myself in the studio the other day when I was playing with a new Profoto 5′ light I recently purchased. I was playing with the effect of spraying water in the air with the hmi/strobe lighting it and the effect it would create. I had 4 strobes and 1 HMI in this shot. I have strip banks on either side of the camera for fill, the 5′ Profoto octabank overhead for main,  7′ Elinchrome octabank for edge light, and an Arrisun 1200 watt hmi for the back light. For those of you less knowledgeable, that’s like 20K in lighting equipment.

It was a great test and it’s a fun picture of my best model ever .. myself. Enjoy!