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April 24, 2009 • Blog, Photo Shoots

e1lu1Maybe it is being born in California, I don’t know, but I spent a major part of my youth skateboarding in empty pools, dreaming about half pipes, watching Tony Alva tear it up.  I still skate today on my 30 year old Alva board.   The other day I met Eric, a  high school student, and watched him do tricks I didn’t know were possible on a board on flat pavement.  So this naturally led to a photo session in the park.  I decided to shoot a cross lighting set up, using a Elinchrom Rotalux Deep 100cm softbox as my main light, and a gridded (40 degree) head as an accent light.  The deep Rotalux softbox has a great quality of light, somewhere between a beauty dish and a standard lightbox.  Eric would skate to his mark, do some wild move, and skate on through.  Of course I wanted lots of takes to get a good shot, but I couldn’t seem to wear Eric out.  In fact he suggested he do tricks over something, like some of my expensive camera gear.  I had faith in his abilities, but we opted for a softbox instead of me.   tech: ISO 100, 1/250, f 18, Nikon D3 and 14-24mm 2.8 lens, Elinchrom Ranger packs triggered by Skyports.  We underexposed the ambient exposure by 1/1/2 stops and added some ‘snap’ using Photoshop and Lucis Art.  Check out the short video behind the scenes.

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