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Every time you race, you learn something that you’ll try to do again, and you learn something that you’ll try to never do again. If the same logic is applied to skateboarding competition photo shoots, my two take-away items are: … Continue reading
The first picture is actually from last week at Maumee Bay State Park, but I couldn’t let that one go un-posted. I love the spiral spray from the board. I only wish I was closer when I took it (or that I had that $2k lens that has me salivating). Sorry, no good shots of Brian who we met at LP that day. Maybe next time!
Here’s the shots that I managed to get when I wasn’t fixated on the kids with scooters.
I went downtown to take some photos – just to get some practice with different lighting. As I was walking along Summit St, I saw two kids on scooters cutting through an atrium next to that parking garage that faces the park. On the other side of the atrium was a fountain that I hadn’t remembered ever seeing before. So… new subject matter, right? Cool!
I snapped a couple pics of the fountain and looked around for the next interesting shot when I noticed that the ledges around the fountain had been ridden by skaters and they’d done some grinding on those ledges. The wild part of what happened next is that I had just watched a video on YouTube by B&H Photo about how if you just park yourself in an interesting spot, the photos will often come to you. You don’t always have to go searching for them.
I started to sit down on the steps to do exactly that; wait for the pictures to come to me. Just then, the two scooter kids came back through the atrium. The kid in the blue/white shirt said, “Hey do you want to get some pictures of us grinding that ledge?”
“Hell yes!” was my reply.
Here’s what I got. As always, if you’d like a full size image or a print, let me know. I’ll hook you up.
