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Adventures in Portraiture

Last summer the Globe dudes made a quick trip through town and I got the chance to shoot a bit with Chris Haslam.

I rented a Hasselblad Macro lens to try and get a good close up portrait, was never happy with the standard 80mm Hasselblad lens especially when shooting head shot style stuff. I always loved the detail and the depth of field you can get with a proper medium format shot.

While I was shooting these I was standing on a plastic chair that managed to break, it was a classy move. First time shooting with Haslam, half laying in a puddle with my arm up trying to save the rented lens, good stuff. ...humbling to say the least.

Also managed to get a photo of him shredding the SBC mini, again another humbling experience watching him skate transition.

Kickflip Wallride

At least the photo turned out pretty cool, we ended up using it for his Firsts article which is now online.

Someday My Prints Will Come

Finally got around to finishing and scanning a roll of black and white film that has been in my camera since last spring.

Jon Goemann- Tailslide

Andrew Wenckstern

Morgan Smith- Nosegrind 180

Andrew McNeil

Arto

Stolen Gear

Good friend and fellow SBC staffer, Owen Woytowich recently got his gear stolen out of a friend's car here in Toronto the other night.

I'm sure not a lot of people other than skate photogs are really going to buy a Hasselblad fisheye, so check the gear below and keep your eyes peeled.


"Somebody went ahead and stole all of my gear on October 6th, 2009 around 8:00 PM in Toronto, ON in front of 65 Clinton St. where we were parked. It was a smash and grab as I had two brand new skateboards in the back seat (DGK Wade DesArmo & Organika Karl Watson) which led the door to them seeing my camera bag which was stashed in the back of the hatch of the vehicle. Here’s what is now missing (my life essentially)"

- Owen Woytowich

*I snapped a few photos from a while back of my bag for you to see roughly what is missing which are below.

Hasselblad:

500 C/M Body
30mm 3.5 Fisheye lens (slight bend in the hood from boards & scuff on the bottom of the hood from sliding on the pavement)
120mm 4.0 lens
Prism Finder
Waistlevel Finder
120 Film Back


Nikon Cameras and Lenses:

D2Xs Body
D2H Body (SNE162072)
80-200mm 2.8 lens (etched LA Times on lens barrel)
50mm 1.8 lens (516605)
10.5 Fisheye lens (327130)
Tamron 28-200 lens

Flash/Flash Accessories:

Nikon SB-800 flash (x3) (SNE 2503204)
Quantum Q-Flash Model T
Quanutm Q-Flash Model T2

PocketWizard Plus II Transceivers Radio Slaves (x7)
(6129955, 6129934)
10 PocketWizard Slave Cables

Quantum Turbo Z Battery (x2)
Lumidyne Battery

Minolta Light Meter III

Gitzo Mini Tripod
SanDisk CF Cards (x5)
Fuji Provia (x10)
Ilford Delta BW Film (x5)

Garmin NUVI GPS & Cables

Tamrac Wheelie Travel Bag (Black)

Motown Bro Down

Noah T was so stoked on the new park he camped out.


Doing some shopping.


Paul looking epic as the days get shorter.





Took a little trip to Windsor/Detroit. Can't have a road trip without a game or two of Stacker.


Did you know the media once declared Hill "lord o the pipe?"





Bouncin.


Mitch pryma was in rough shape.


Local Windsor legend Jamie jefferey





Street yoga.


Huge handrails.



Sam with a snappy AND prompt kickflip.


Hill repping the daggers.


Hot and ready.


Epic spots.


Not as epic but still sick.

Comedic Coup D’etat

Last spring, with the help of local shredder/funny dude, Nik Sexton got the chance to shoot Rick Mercer, another local funny dude (and shredder?) for an interview in the mag. For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian public broadcasting, here is a bit of info.

For whatever reason, I thought it would be cool to rent one of those artsy Nikon tilt/shift lenses and go straight from renting that to meeting Mercer on set. The lens is a bit tricky and doesn't have an auto focus feature. Luckily a few of the shots turned out half decent and he was a good sport.

Anyways, the full interview is now up for your reading pleasure and below are are few of the photos.

Sussed out

The "sus Monts" vid has finally dropped. Here are a few photos from the Toronto premiere. The new change skateboards vid also dropped.





Cephas wears it well








Men of the hour. Sherman and Lee show off their hard work. Now go to your local shop and buy the vid!






Nathan had a few refreshments.





Quick getting ready to show off his baby. Good work quick!




Shubat and Pat get their lurk on.




Media moguls.

Switch Skitch

Fresh ink.



Paul's tatted up.



A little art on queen west.



McNeil and sam show the power of the Ceres.



Looked cool from the road...



Another perfect spot.



Abstract sunset grind photo.



Bochart in the mix.















New ashbridges park in the beaches is insane!



More awesome spots.



Switch skitch.

Phoned in

Got a little blog happy with this new iPhone today. Hopefully this means a little less slacking thanks to on the go updating. Here is the rest of the day.


New sponsor came in handy


Ah, the wood set up. A canadian classic.


A sweet sunset to end the day.

Nolan ripping!

Mains and Seabass on the sesh

Aiden's new sponsor

Hollywood Squares

Staying in Los Angeles for a little bit at Phil McKnight's place. Here are a few photos so far.

Randomly on the same flight as Ryan who had packed modestly, as always.

Secret spot.

There's always money in the banana stand.

Phil's dog, Jimmy.

Riding bikes, that's cool now, right?

This is a photo op if I've ever seen one.

Jesse was ripping.

He is also in the market for a kit change. We got the Harry Potter...

...and the Renee Renee

Phil is really hyped on this place.

He even sunk a free throw to win a box of High Fiber cereal.

Checked a few small rails.

Good eats.

The view

Ah the sunsetting over the Porta-potties.

Northern Exposure

There is a contest for budding skateboard photographers to get their stuff in the photo annual and win a bunch of gear. It's judged by Jody Morris, should be sick. Check it out here.

Bro Dr.

Holy crap, it's almost August already... Here are some odds and ends from the summer so far.

Did you see Lee Yankou's interview? Must be the grip.

Owen scopes out the new issue of Concrete while flash guarding.

Dave Christian shooting with Niagara native, Cory Wilson.

Looking fresh.

People with braces can shred too.

Terrence scraping off the wax.

Paul OD-ing on Caffeine

The price of irony.

Decisions, decisions.

Oskar dumpster diving.

Found some chocolates still in their boxes/wrappers... what? Time are tough.

Shubat showing off the proper board holding technique. Note the deck.

Pat made a new fan.

Haslams got some fans too.

Also took some time to do a limited edition collabo with the kid on the left.

"It's real, man!" Sorry I doubted you, Ryan.

Happened to cruise by Euro Breads without a truck, sweet.

Getting emo.

Filmer beef.

Found this perfect new spot and Pat did a sick kickflip.

Jordan Bandula takes the spot to a new level with a tree kick thingy.

...and Arto takes a more traditional route.

Rubber Soul

Ran into some familiar faces at the park the other night. Looks like Vasyl has some new moves.

The Kitts are Alright

Got showed around St. Catherines (aka Worona country) by resident gerb/ripper Andrew Wenckstern.

A good old barrier in the woods.

It's not summer until someone jumps off a bridge into a river of some sort.

Andrew Jammin'

Geoff Stock!

Montreal photographer Geoff Clifford had all his gear stolen from his place not long ago. Flashes, digital gear and even a Hasselblad set up with a fisheye, sucks.

If you are in Montreal, swing by Geoff Stock and buy some cheap prints or make a donation to help a fellow photographer out!

Whatever Works

Can't wait.

Wheelies, etc

A few randoms from the past little bit. I'm making an effort to break the digi cam out a bit more.

Blaxall shredding that long ledge in Stoney Creek. It's skateable again... sort of.

Paul doing some wheelies.

"I hate filming"

Little Nick made a cameo.

Pre-Facebook

Saw Mortal on the weekend and for whatever reason he was going through his wallet which he has had since high school. He found some old photos of girls he knew that he still had in there. He seemed pretty stoked on them.

"This one was the hottest chick in our school."

Looks like a previous addressee was whited out, hmm.

Contrast

Looks like some nice weather is finally here.

We hit up that cinder block ledge spot that's so hot right now.

Hendrik Herzmann Interview

Got another little 'interview' with a photographer this week.

I got a chance to hit up Herdrik Hermann (aka Henne) a German photographer who's stuff I've been stoked on ever since I started nerding out on photography online.

Enjoy the photo with a few words to go along with it.

Check here for the PDF.

Southern Discomfort

One broken Van, a broken video camera and chipped fisheye and one crew member flying home early with an injury— despite that, we made it out in once piece on another trip to Atlanta.

Glad to see the Fuel Man is surviving in these tough times.

Shot a few rolls of film

Fine dining.

Kill Will

The crew was a little worked by the last day.

Really small rails.

See?

Got the boot from this spot pretty quick so this awesome photo of Brandon is the only thing we got.

Poaching some doubles.

Ah, the south.

This kid was so hyped on Grant Taylor, he even busted his arm up like him.

Caught up with our homie from last year, Andrew to show us around on the last day.

First stop, Home Depot park.

Pat worked on some new moves

...and instantly gained cred with the locals.

Manny spot = razor tail.

Some local kids were stoked we were skating across from their house, they came by to get in on the session. Check the Toronto hat.

The old forest quarterpipe.

Jay with a new look for spring. Right after this he slammed right onto his back trying a kinked rail and flew home the next morning. Get well dude!

Southern Comfort

Shredding in ATL right now. Had a patch of rough weather at the start but now it's blue skies. Here some randoms from the journey so far.

Morgan helped Will with some outfit changes.

Went for some fine dining on Maj's birthday.

Gas station movie reviews with Pat.

Hit up Hazard county indoor park on one of the rainy days.

Devin and Morgan outfit coordinating.

Coming soon to Facebook

Good eats.

The gang at the famous piss hubba

Brandon making some new friends.

Will knows the value of a good education

ROFL hour

Good eats pt2.

Lots of driving.

This is pretty much the view the whole way.

Koty and Terrence doubling up over the couch with Morgan behind the lens

Spring Break

Geeze, almost a month since the last update— sorry.

I'm in Atlanta with some dudes, photos from here in a minute, but for now I just want to draw attention to the new SBC cover shot by Scott Pommier that should be hitting shops/your hands in the coming days.

I've never seen a switch hurricane, but if anyone is going to do it, it's going to be one of the Decenzos....

Glencoe Gets Carded

Saw this clip on Elliott's blog the other day of Glencoe eating shit on the Cardiel Hubba in SF.

(Click to watch)

Kind of forgot about it, but that hubba is in a pretty sketchy park (you cant tell by the dude in the clip). The ledge is pretty perfect, I think it just got de-capped (there was a pole in the landing or something?) by rollerbladers when we were there.

Glencoe was getting really close to this switch noseslide when he did that harsh slam into the bush, his back was all cut up from the shrubs and stuff, it wasn't nice.

We went back the next day to meet up and Glencoe was checking out the bushes he just slammed into and saw a nice handful of syringes, some broken, some cracked just laying there in the bushes. By the look on his face when he saw the vile stuff he slammed into you could tell he was a little stressed. Pat an I tried to assure him he is alright, even though we both knew he just basically did a backwards Crodile Mile into into a biohazard.

I guess he never contracted anything that day as he's still alive and rolling.


I do feel a little bad when I hear me and Pat heckling him on the clip though.

Weekend Shift

Finally broke down to Brooks Reynolds prodding and rented one of those Tilt-Shift lenses that are so-hot-right now and I have to say it was pretty fun to play around with, maybe not worth the hefty price tag to buy though right now.

Heavy metal

Dave Christian got artsy while stuck in traffic.

Got a chance to swing by The Mercer Report thanks to Nik Sexton

Not a tilt-shift shot, but Paul's Front crook was as good an excuse as any to dust off the camera mid winter.

Party like it's 1939

Toronto staple, Honest Ed's is having a sale where they set prices back to how they were in the 30's for a bunch of items. Go see if you can find some deals on 5 panels hats or tees.

Check the article here.

Pretty weird seeing milk and stuff for 25 cents.

Young Condor

Digging through some old CDs of photos at the office and came across this one of Jonathan Condren from Tampa Am 2000 (?) shot by Ryan Allan. It was too good not to post up.

Allen Ying Interview

Took a bit of time and finally did something I was meaning to do— interviewed a photographer I was stoked on. Hopefully it'll be the first of several.

Allen Ying is a talented skate photographer from New York and will probably be the first to call himself a photo nerd— his relentless pursuit of technical perfection is definitely humbling. That's why I thought it would be rad to talk with him. Heads up, it can get pretty heavy on the photo jargon, but there's some sick photos from him to keep you interested.

Download the PDF here.

"One Button. Endless Possibilities."

Got yours pre-ordered yet?

Transit Cops

Adrift has a rad new deck graphic based on the TTC map. All the station names are changed up, some are pretty funny. Click the picture below to see a bigger version to read them all.

Now for something completely differnt....