Lights? Check.
Camera? Check.
Action? Check.
It is really nice having friends that can actually skateboard. It really makes photography a lot simpler. It helps so much when you are trying to get a shot and they are really cooperative and just down to shred. This last week I shot some skateboarding with the flashes and was pretty pumped. I have had the flashes for a while but just recently got the new Cyber Synchs and seriously my world of photography has been expanded drastically. I thank my two good friends Matt and Joey for providing the quality skateboarding.
Matt has a this old mini ramp he made about 6 years ago and still has it and it just sits out in his woods. The shots of the wooden mini ramp are really special to Joey, Matt and I mainly just because of how sketchy the mini ramp is. I tried to get a really simple shot to show the sketchy-ness of the ramp. The mini ramp is completely vert and almost over vert which just makes it so much harder to skate and Joey and Matt were shredding. This next weekend, we are going back with more lights and moving the RV so we can have a very cool photo shoot out in the woods with a random mini ramp.
The Coeur d’Alene skatepark photos I thought are pretty sweet, just good ol’ natural shreddin’. I didn’t get super tech with lights at the park, just one 430EX flash placed up on top of the deck and pointed at the coping. Something I have tried to express via my photography, in this instance, skateboarding, is showing strong emotion including facial expression, composition and in this instance the skateboarders style. Matt and Joey both really have great style skateboarding and sometimes while shooting skateboarding it is hard to express ones style on a skateboard.
Here are the shots:
Thanks,
-Steve
Hey, these are some nice photos. Skateboarding pictures are fun to look at because there’s so much action and so many tricks that you can capture. The lighting in these are really nice and dramatic. Oh and I really like the first one and how there’s a baseball game going on in the background. For me, that really adds to it.
The last four are really cool too. Nice job!
“are really special to Joey, Matt and I” should actually be joey, matt, and me… I got your back
Yeah Steve… cybersyncs are gonna change your life, nice work
Joey is correct. The best way to see if you should use I or Me is to remove all the other names, if I fits- use I, if Me fits, use me.
The first three, the light is a bit harsh. Dial them down a little and they will be golden.
The last shots on the old pipe, those are wonderful and in my opinion, show a great understanding of using light.
I hope the 540EZ serves you well.
Oh, be sure to post links!