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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #150 on: June 07, 2022, 12:05:58 PM »
I‘m using a Epson V750, which works fine. It‘s just damn slow. Camera scanning seems to be a good option, works faster and quality is very good. You need to have a good digital workaround (I don‘t even have photoshop haha). People scan with a Fuji x system, a 35mm lens plus extension tube and it works fine.

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #151 on: June 07, 2022, 02:01:18 PM »
I‘m using a Epson V750, which works fine. It‘s just damn slow. Camera scanning seems to be a good option, works faster and quality is very good. You need to have a good digital workaround (I don‘t even have photoshop haha). People scan with a Fuji x system, a 35mm lens plus extension tube and it works fine.

What is the scan time to do a hi res photo? I mean I am sort of a part time film photographer and to date have only finished less than 10 rolls of film but I am so used to digital that developing and then long scan times would drive me nuts.
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #152 on: June 08, 2022, 12:16:19 PM »
What’s your goal with the scans? Posting digitally, making larger prints? That’ll determine what you might need.

I have an old canon canoscan 9000F that is decent for stuff that’ll live in a digital space. It can scan pretty high res, but I’ve never printed from those files.

I’m part of a darkroom collective that has some impressive scanners. We have two epson flatbeds. Not sure on models. Those handled some old Kodachrome slides well. We also have a noritsu for 35mm and a imacon for larger format. Those are amazing, but not very practical for an at home setup.

I know a couple people who have run a light box and macro lens setup for scanning. A macro lens is pretty nice to have.

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #153 on: June 12, 2022, 02:44:04 AM »
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #154 on: June 18, 2022, 02:25:04 PM »
Anyone knows what setup Oliver Barton is using for his square fisheye shots?
Is it cropped to 1:1 circular fisheye???

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #155 on: June 18, 2022, 02:47:21 PM »
Back in the film days the square fisheye shots were usually made with the hasselblad 30mm fisheye.

My guess is that he uses the canon 8-15mm fisheye at 8mm on a full frame camera and then crops to 1:1 (8mm or zoomed in enough so that there is not vignetting on the 1:1 crop.

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #156 on: June 19, 2022, 12:26:55 AM »
Back in the film days the square fisheye shots were usually made with the hasselblad 30mm fisheye.

My guess is that he uses the canon 8-15mm fisheye at 8mm on a full frame camera and then crops to 1:1 (8mm or zoomed in enough so that there is not vignetting on the 1:1 crop.

I tried 8mm on ff but its hard to compose in camera.
Got some shots but after cropping to 1:1 in LR i find it often to cut off skaters hand or landing etc.
maybe he gaff tape lcd screen to see the final 1:1 crop without vigneting and then you have a better idea how to compose?

My example: if i would crop to get rid of vig on the top i would cut his head of.
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #157 on: June 19, 2022, 01:32:33 PM »
if its got blue sky like that thats easy af to just select it and do a content aware fill in photoshop. or even if youre using lightroom just use the spot removal brush.

also i believe oliver barton is using a nikon 10.5mm with the hood shaved off on a full frame body.
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #158 on: June 20, 2022, 06:17:39 AM »
Anyone knows what setup Oliver Barton is using for his square fisheye shots?
Is it cropped to 1:1 circular fisheye???

Ps my work:
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I was wondering the exact same thing

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Re: the skate photography thread
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #163 on: August 12, 2022, 02:56:11 PM »
Hello guys, can somebody suggest me a camera setup to start shooting skateboarding photos? I Need advices for camera and lenses. For the camera i Wish i can get It with something like 500€. Then i Will get lenses and flashes step by step. Thank you! 

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #164 on: August 13, 2022, 10:48:23 AM »
I‘m pretty happy with my Fuji apsc setup, but you‘ll be able to get a full frame body for around 500 (canon 5d mark ii, Nikon d750 or some Sony a7). Camera should have a flash sync (x-sync) of 1/250 to freeze the object.
Canon and Nikon have a ton of good lenses (a fish is about 250 euro and 50mm about 120 euro). You might need a good tele at some point, which can be more expensive.

Flashes are another topic … I use a mix of cheap  yongnuo flashes and triggers, and also an old metz ct4. That’s cheap and without Metz brick it’s pretty portable.

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« Reply #165 on: August 14, 2022, 09:32:09 PM »
what’s up yall

shot some street / life photography on an old analog yashica I had years ago . had to handle some other things in life and I stopped taking photos , but I’m looking to get a dslr setup to start doing some skateboard photography .

used to have an acc on here and skateperception quite a few years ago . appreciate the last two posts and anyone sharing their insight . hope GAY and the other og folks are doing well .

apologies in advance for the washed ass questions I’m sure I’m going to ask . I don’t have an ig or social media so some of the posts come up as blank - the ones I do see in posts are all ill .

hope to get more active in here soon , just need to get a proper beginner cam and fisheye to start .

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #167 on: August 17, 2022, 08:33:42 PM »

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #168 on: August 18, 2022, 03:10:20 PM »
I‘m pretty happy with my Fuji apsc setup, but you‘ll be able to get a full frame body for around 500 (canon 5d mark ii, Nikon d750 or some Sony a7). Camera should have a flash sync (x-sync) of 1/250 to freeze the object.
Canon and Nikon have a ton of good lenses (a fish is about 250 euro and 50mm about 120 euro). You might need a good tele at some point, which can be more expensive.

Flashes are another topic … I use a mix of cheap  yongnuo flashes and triggers, and also an old metz ct4. That’s cheap and without Metz brick it’s pretty portable.
Thanks a lot! I'm looking many Infos on various sites, and i'm looking at used guaranteed photo stores in Italy. Thanks for giving me the Infos! I'm very new to photography. I do have filming setup but dont know nothing about photography. I Will take a look at those 3 models you suggested me. I didn't know that flash Sync exists and It Is so important.. i absolutely thought that synchronizing flash to camera Was the last of the problems, i mean i thought every camera Was able to easily synchronize with flashes. Obviously i Was wrong ;D...that Is an important thing to know.
Thank you for all the Infos!


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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #169 on: August 18, 2022, 03:19:17 PM »
I‘m pretty happy with my Fuji apsc setup, but you‘ll be able to get a full frame body for around 500 (canon 5d mark ii, Nikon d750 or some Sony a7). Camera should have a flash sync (x-sync) of 1/250 to freeze the object.
Canon and Nikon have a ton of good lenses (a fish is about 250 euro and 50mm about 120 euro). You might need a good tele at some point, which can be more expensive.

Flashes are another topic … I use a mix of cheap  yongnuo flashes and triggers, and also an old metz ct4. That’s cheap and without Metz brick it’s pretty portable.

Can you also suggest me a good analog camera please? My idea Was to get an analog camera! I forgot to write that in the First post. Full frame analog camera 35mm

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #170 on: August 22, 2022, 01:55:10 AM »
https://www.instagram.com/p/ChWS1kEpw5H/

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I‘m pretty happy with my Fuji apsc setup, but you‘ll be able to get a full frame body for around 500 (canon 5d mark ii, Nikon d750 or some Sony a7). Camera should have a flash sync (x-sync) of 1/250 to freeze the object.
Canon and Nikon have a ton of good lenses (a fish is about 250 euro and 50mm about 120 euro). You might need a good tele at some point, which can be more expensive.

Flashes are another topic … I use a mix of cheap  yongnuo flashes and triggers, and also an old metz ct4. That’s cheap and without Metz brick it’s pretty portable.
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Can you also suggest me a good analog camera please? My idea Was to get an analog camera! I forgot to write that in the First post. Full frame analog camera 35mm

For sure. Since there is no need to shot analog sequences anymore, you don't need a speedy motordrive. There are two possibilities for having fast x-sync: super modern autofocus (nikon f5, f6, f100, canon eos 1, minolta 9xi) or semi mechanical and manual (nikon fm3a, nikon fe2). I have a canon eos 5 with a 1/180 sync since 20 years, but if I would start from scratch I'd buy a nikon f100, it seems pretty good. you can find yongnuo flash systems for the modern nikons too which is a plus too.

X-sync seems like a obsession but it's pretty important to avoid motion blur and photograph in harsh lightning conditions. the hasselblad can do 1/500 and the results are such a joy to look at. you can hit me up instagram if you have any questions!

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« Reply #171 on: August 23, 2022, 07:59:37 AM »

sick! love it!

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I‘m pretty happy with my Fuji apsc setup, but you‘ll be able to get a full frame body for around 500 (canon 5d mark ii, Nikon d750 or some Sony a7). Camera should have a flash sync (x-sync) of 1/250 to freeze the object.
Canon and Nikon have a ton of good lenses (a fish is about 250 euro and 50mm about 120 euro). You might need a good tele at some point, which can be more expensive.

Flashes are another topic … I use a mix of cheap  yongnuo flashes and triggers, and also an old metz ct4. That’s cheap and without Metz brick it’s pretty portable.
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Can you also suggest me a good analog camera please? My idea Was to get an analog camera! I forgot to write that in the First post. Full frame analog camera 35mm
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For sure. Since there is no need to shot analog sequences anymore, you don't need a speedy motordrive. There are two possibilities for having fast x-sync: super modern autofocus (nikon f5, f6, f100, canon eos 1, minolta 9xi) or semi mechanical and manual (nikon fm3a, nikon fe2). I have a canon eos 5 with a 1/180 sync since 20 years, but if I would start from scratch I'd buy a nikon f100, it seems pretty good. you can find yongnuo flash systems for the modern nikons too which is a plus too.

X-sync seems like a obsession but it's pretty important to avoid motion blur and photograph in harsh lightning conditions. the hasselblad can do 1/500 and the results are such a joy to look at. you can hit me up instagram if you have any questions!
Nice! Thanks a lot. I Will look for a Nikon f100 then. I Will look also at the other models you suggested me!

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #172 on: August 28, 2022, 05:54:06 PM »
Finally popped my fisheye cherry with this photo of Chico. He hit me up to get a photo for his latest Chico Stix board. Took a while to get the shot just cause getting the focus and composition for me takes a little getting used to.

And I finally figure out what was wrong with my strobe last shoot. I shot the photo at 1000th of a second at full power and got motion blur but it had to do the the flash duration at full power. This was shot at 1/4 and it was tack sharp.

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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #175 on: September 12, 2022, 03:24:55 AM »
love those! Scheveningen seems like a place to find super photogenic spots.

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« Reply #176 on: September 20, 2022, 09:02:33 AM »
Went out skating with fellow Slap Pal @Freelancevagrant and snapped this portrait of him as well as a pivot at Austin high (second slide)
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #177 on: September 26, 2022, 10:52:32 AM »
I randomly ran into some photos from Clément Le Gall. Never heard of the guy but man his photos are so good and right up my alley.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CDtLdktorn6/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCc_kHIoD2b/

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Are there any other photographers that I need to be following? I sort of only follow the OG skateboard photographers but need to follow some of the newer guys.
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Re: the skate photography thread
« Reply #178 on: September 27, 2022, 08:15:43 AM »
 Here's a back tail by Jamie Reyes I took from her trip to Guatemala.
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« Reply #179 on: September 28, 2022, 03:30:47 AM »





Are there any other photographers that I need to be following? I sort of only follow the OG skateboard photographers but need to follow some of the newer guys.

Check out Rich West, Joel Peck, Biemer, I could go on!