In 2007 I was asked by sports vision to be part of the team that covered "Ripcurl Boardmasters" event in Newquay in Cornwall. I guess the only reason I was asked to cover the event was because a considerable number of my shots from NASS had been published and it was the same PR company who were running this event. Proof if ever there was that attending the much smaller festivals can lead onto bigger and better things. The surfing at the event was world class and it was one of the few occasions that I got to actually enjoy the spectacle as well as photograph it. I spent most of my days at the event stood on the rocks armed with my camera fitted with a 400mm lens with a 2x converter added to it as well. Along with the surfing there was also a large prize fund for the Vans Vert Ramp so it attracted some of the worlds best vert riders. This shot was taken on one of the practice sessions with me stood on top of the vert ramp on a ledge no wider than 3 foot armed with my camera and a 20-40mm lens and my flash which was connected to my camera with a flash chord so that I could use the flash off camera. For this shot I was kneeling down and had been watching the way the skateboarders set themselves on the opposite bank to see where they would pop up in front of me. Some would say that this was a lucky shot and indeed there was no way I could predict the boarder having his tongue hanging out at just the right time but I like to think that because of my observations and where I had set myself I had to some extent predicted the shot. The exposure is 1000th sec at F16 with an ISO of 800 the reason for the high ISO is because I wanted to get the opposite side of the ramp in focus because I had hoped to sell some of my shots to the sponsors so I needed to make sure their logos were pin sharp. As it was I didn't manage to sell this particular shot to the sponsors because of the "blind" logo on the skateboarders board but did manage to sell another shot taken from the base of the ramp. I like this shot though because the boarder seems to be weightless in the air.Wednesday, 8 April 2009
Vert Ramp
In 2007 I was asked by sports vision to be part of the team that covered "Ripcurl Boardmasters" event in Newquay in Cornwall. I guess the only reason I was asked to cover the event was because a considerable number of my shots from NASS had been published and it was the same PR company who were running this event. Proof if ever there was that attending the much smaller festivals can lead onto bigger and better things. The surfing at the event was world class and it was one of the few occasions that I got to actually enjoy the spectacle as well as photograph it. I spent most of my days at the event stood on the rocks armed with my camera fitted with a 400mm lens with a 2x converter added to it as well. Along with the surfing there was also a large prize fund for the Vans Vert Ramp so it attracted some of the worlds best vert riders. This shot was taken on one of the practice sessions with me stood on top of the vert ramp on a ledge no wider than 3 foot armed with my camera and a 20-40mm lens and my flash which was connected to my camera with a flash chord so that I could use the flash off camera. For this shot I was kneeling down and had been watching the way the skateboarders set themselves on the opposite bank to see where they would pop up in front of me. Some would say that this was a lucky shot and indeed there was no way I could predict the boarder having his tongue hanging out at just the right time but I like to think that because of my observations and where I had set myself I had to some extent predicted the shot. The exposure is 1000th sec at F16 with an ISO of 800 the reason for the high ISO is because I wanted to get the opposite side of the ramp in focus because I had hoped to sell some of my shots to the sponsors so I needed to make sure their logos were pin sharp. As it was I didn't manage to sell this particular shot to the sponsors because of the "blind" logo on the skateboarders board but did manage to sell another shot taken from the base of the ramp. I like this shot though because the boarder seems to be weightless in the air.
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