Lights, Camera, Action
Posted by Scott SturgesMay 7
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






































































































































