View from the West: Philadelphia, Spring 2009.

Shot this sometime in the Spring of 2009… When every cloud didn’t mean a rainy day.

info:
Kodak E100VS
150mm

Railway: Philadelphia, October 2009.

Shot this while skating under some tracks in Philly week or so ago. Probably should have shot more since I don’t have much skating to post right now… Maybe it’s time to dig for some older stuff.

Info:
150mm lens
Kodak E100VS 120

Paul Shier // Blueprint Skateboards ad // 2008

We shot this photo on a trip Shier made with Dan Magee, Kevin Coakley, and Jerome Campbell to Philadelphia in Sept 2008. It ended up getting used as a Blueprint Skateboards ad in Skateboarder magazine. It was scanned on a flatbed, which actually lead me to start using PEC Pads. They are super soft/anti lint napkins you can use with a film spray to make sure everything remains clean before scanning. Definitely worth getting if you’re tired of stressing over fingerprints.

Unedited

Shot with Kodak E100 VS & an 80mm lens.

Steph Morgan: Philadelphia, September 2009.

Taken during Steph’s recent trip to the States, repping a Familia Skateboards sweatshirt.

Shot with a Canonet GIII QL17 on Portra 400NC

Philadelphia, October 2009.

Took this today while skating under a bridge in Philly. The sky was blue but for some reason it was reflecting some crazy colors through the patterns on the left.

Shot with Fuji FP-100C Polaroid film.

German Nieves: frontside 180

This is another photo from the 10 Deep Boston – Montreal summer tour.

German Nieves: frontside 180 in Boston, MA.

Dan Zvereff: Ollie

Published in the Incentives section of the Sept. – Oct. issue of Focus Skate mag. We shot this during a trip he made to Philly with some friends from Boston.

Dan Zvereff: Ollie head-on over the railing into narrow bank.

Bronica SQ-A // 35mm Fisheye @ f.4.5
Shot on Kodak E100VS

Strobist:
1x Lumedyne 200w/s camera left, at the level of the top stair, with 1xsb800 below it.
1x Q flash in the grass camera right, with 1xsb800 on ground pointed up at Dan
1x sb800 & 1x sb28 on ground on the top level for a rim.

The “Juice” man

Shot this I believe in June 2009. We were at Love Park for a Philadelphia Daily News article on the issues of skateboarding in Philadelphia, specifically Love Park.

Meet Juice, downtown Philadelphia superstar.

Shot with a Canon GIII QL17 (40mm f1.7 lens)

10 Deep Boston – Montreal summer tour 2009

Below is a tearsheet from the Sept. – Oct. issue of Focus skate mag of a 10 Deep clothing trip I went on this summer. The crew was German Nieves, Daniel Kim, Rodrigo Lima, Nate Fantasia, Jamal Smith, and filmer Allen Danze. We began spending 3 days in Boston, and then headed up to Montreal for 4 before returning to New York City.

pg. 1 + 2

pg. 3 + 4

Obsessing the film/digi issue.

Every time I get a bill from the film lab back it makes me wonder if it’s worth shooting film so regularly. The quality of digital just isn’t too convincing. This past week Real skateboards collab’d with Reign Skateshop (Philadelphia) using a photo of mine. Since it was printing large, I took in the film to get drum scanned. It was my first time paying to get it done for me, and is worth every penny spent.

Todays top of the line digitals, print maybe 2 feet long at full res 300dpi. The drum I got back had true optical res of 6.5×6.5 feet @ 300dpi. It definitely isn’t worth getting all of your work in this high of quality, but shooting digital you cancel out the possibility of scale. Half the time I shoot non-skate, my favorite photos are ones I didn’t intend to be, so why risk it? Also, the sharpness is really unbeatable. So most of you reading this probably could care less, but in short… I thought I’d show the time line of photo, to scan, to print, at a larger scale.

Drum Scan high res crop (click to open full res)

Poster design

In the window