Motorbike Photography

I went out with a friend yesterday to get some photos of his bike, a Kawasaki something or other, I don't do a great deal of car/bike photos but we wanted to do some top gear type shots which is basically a photo with an odd coloured gradient (usually purple) over layering the sky. It is actually a cool effect, I'll put my effort up, this had a cyan coloured sky to compliment the red of the bike (colour theory). Anyway as soon as we pulled up to take photos the heavens opened and we had to sit in the car while everything else got soaked, in the end it wasn't too bad because the rain drops added to the overall picture I thought. I metered for the sky and used flash on the bike. I've just looked at the exif data and it turns out I was at ISO 50, no wonder I had to crank my flash up, I had been on a commercial shoot earlier that day and must have forgot to change it back. Anyway these were taken at about 24mm at f/8 for 1/6 sec. I think the cyan sky one might be a touch too dark but there is plenty of space at the side for text, in say a magazine article which is useful to remember. I quite like high contrast one with the yellow tinge to the left, low, dynamic angles are a key ingredient to this type of photography.