Embroidered Biker Patches Blog

I've been unhappy about the way our primary images looked for lots of patches. So I took the bold task of photographing all our patches once again. It's an enormous task, but you get through it by taking care of a few hundred a day. What I learnt is the best photos are taken under daylight. Forget the fake light setup of a studio, it works but not as good as a photo taken under regular daylight. I've got a Canon EOS M5 camera equipped with a macro lense. It's smaller than the older EOS 7D that I have. Yet it's a lot more powerful and versatile to use. It takes expertise and practice to see what works. I realize I messed up on the white balance settings for my first batch, but I got to find out about the custom white balance setting of the camera. Whites can go two different ways, with a tint of red or blue. Your camera has the functionality to set the white balance to a custom setting. How do you achieve that? Well I did a bit of research and found out. First you want to take a photo of a completely white surface. In my case it's the non reflective white background I use. You snap a photo of just the white background with nothing else. You may have to set your Camera's focus to manual mode so you can get a focus on it (camera's tend to go nuts on you if there is just a single color to focus on automatically). Once you snap your photo, all you have to do is go to the custom white balance setting and pick the photo you just took. This sets the camera's white balance to the correct setting so the next photo you take you don't see any blue or red within your whites. Another trick I learn over the years is, never try to get a pure white background by over compensating on the exposure. Just take a regular old photo. In my case I use a lit up background but it's surely not pure white. What I do is I open up the photo on photoshop, select the background and adjust the exposure of the background to pure white. Using a lit up background helps with selecting the background on photoshop, you don't have the shadows to worry about. I overexpose just the background leaving the actual patch exposed at normal levels. It works great. I've rephotographed over a thousand patches in the last couple of days and now you can really see the details of the whites in the embroidery. Before they were all over exposed losing the details. One day perhaps I'll make a video showing you all how to achieve all this incase you didn't get it in my post. Hope you've enjoyed this post. RIDE SAFE and take your own photos, it's the only way to get good at photography.

While many outlets stopped carrying Rebel flag patches to be politically correct we still have them here at TheCheapPlace. Great Quality and comes in all sorts of colors. They are all 3 inches wide, perfect sizes that would fit anywhere! The Confederate Flag is part of American Heritage. You can't erase history. We are not a fan of slavery. We've been carrying the Rebel Flag patches since 2009, before anyone made a big fuss about it. America please understand it's okay to be offended. I bet you over a million people are offended by the Star Spangled Banner, but we sell that too. Opinions are dime a dozen. Please if you don't like something you have the option to not buy it. Just don't deprive others of their rights to wear this patch on their clothing. RIDE SAFE, spread the Southern Heritage. I bet you the South would have stopped slavery if only the North cancelled the debt owed for Slaves. It was a disgusting trade. We are glad it's over.

Beautifully Embroidered 5 inch wide American Flag Patches in all sorts of colors. If 5 inch is too big for you, we have US Flag Patches as small as 2 inches. All Embroidered and all can be ironed on to your clothing. Or if it's going on leather you can iron them on as well. RIDE SAFE

A Handful of new saying patches have arrived on Tuesday. Now that factory is back up and running we'll have lots of new designs coming in the next couple of weeks. RIDE SAFE and have a great week!

We have many different American Flag Patches in different sizes and colors. Come take a look at our quality American Flag Patches you can sew or iron to your clothing. Exquisite Embroidery Job on all! We don't sell crap at TheCheapPlace.com

We carry quality patches. Whether you are a firefighter or a police officer you can decorate your own jacket with these top notch iron on embroidered patches. These are not for your uniforms! They are patches to show your affiliation with the Police department. Please don't buy these if you are not a police officer. Stolen Valor is a disgrace. We make these for our Heroes! Thank you for choosing us to get your patches. RIDE SAFE and God Bless.

We have some very original Large Back Patches for you to decorate the back of your Vests and Jackets with. Most of these Large Patches ship for free anywhere in the United States, all you have to do is spend $25 or more. Applies to retail orders. RIDE SAFE.

Bikers have a way of decorating the back of their vests with upper and lower rocker patches. These add a unique touch to vests with a center piece design right in the middle. It's your vest, decorate it any way you like. Find the Large Top and Bottom Rockers here!

Funny Saying Patches you can sew on to your leather or iron on to your denim. These funny text patches will reflect your humor to others as you walk by them. They work great to decorate hats too! You can sew them on to any material. Easy to iron on when you get the right temperature setting too. Just refrain from ironing on to leather and nylon material which doesn't do too well under heat. RIDE SAFE