More Dallas Texas Pics

While everyone was enjoying Winterclash i started my adventure in Dallas Texas. Geoff Acers from Razors also came over and we started enjoying the amazing Allen skatepark. Staying with Josh Glowicki has been a pleasure so far and we are hitting alot of spots in and around Dallas. Here’s some pics so far.

Fritz with sick true top acid at Allen Skatepark

Geoff Acers boosted this fakie parralel grab at Eisenburgs park

Josh Glowicki with the 360 launch

Jason Reyna with True all-oop mizuo

Troy Maimone, Tru Mizuo to torque

UK Photos 2007/2009

These are a selection of photos I’ve taken during my 2 year stop over in London. I’ve traveled the country and met some amazing people.This is just a slide show of photos. I made it the best quality i could to compliment the photos so it looks best if you full screen it. Hope you like it..

If you want to see it full screen and in great quality, click the vimeo link on the screen and watch it at Vimeo in full screen mode, grab a beer, sit back and enjoy.

America. The Promise Land

Coming from Australia, I’ve only been to the states once and it was only for 2 weeks. America was always a dream mission growing up watching VG’s religiously. I still know all the song words from every Videogroove up to VG 12. I’ve also been reading magazines since Daily Bread No.1. Leaving the UK and heading home has given me the opportunity to fly through America and spend some time doing what i love, traveling, skating and shooting photos.

So starting Feb 12th, i will be doing just that. Starting in Texas and ending in LA I’m looking at making this time productive and seeing such a great country. Meeting up with friends and enjoying everything America has to offer. Personally, i love skateparks so shooting Pro skaters hitting hammers is ok for me cause I’ll just be glad to be there and capture the moment. Following in the foot steps of nomads such as Jeremy Stephenson, Adam Kola and Phillip Forstner. I’ll be attending Bittercold Showdown in Detroit, and hopefully BarnBurner in Seattle. If you see me there, come say hi, I’m always interested in meeting new people. Here’s a funny map i made up of my trip. Unfortunately i won’t get time to see anymore than i have planned cause i need to go home to start my real life again but i hope to be back for a few more of these trips in the coming years. I’ll also be updating my blog along the way to hopefully inspire other travelers to do the same.

Shutter Speeds

Sorry about the break and the no updates. A few things have happened in the last few months. I went up to Liverpool to work for Be-mag and shoot Slamm Jamm. I turned 30 at the start of the month and got really drunk in the centre of London and I’ve been shooting a lot late at night due to work and skater commitments. So i decided to put a right-up about one of the shots i did the other night at around 1am in the morning.Enjoy.

Skating is all about speed and capturing the moment. With photography, it’s always good to experiment to see what changing different settings on your camera will do and checking out the results. I personally love shooting at nights cause i love experimenting with all those flashes i paid soo much for. Even though it’s really cold in London, Jamie Stenner works at his skateshop all saturday and drove 2 hrs to come shoot some photos till the early morning. Glad it was him skating and not me. It was cold enough just sitting on the ground getting photos.

Ok, slow shutter speed means the shutter on the camera stays open letting in more light and colour. This works the best at night cause you use slow shutter speeds to make a scene more colourful and you can create effects that you can’t see with your eye. Using flash also allows you to capture fast moving objects as the camera only picks up light, so your flash hits the skater and the scene and using longer shutter speeds, you can create a blurring effect to whatever the flash doesn’t touch.
Number 1. We set up a piece of wood to use as a launch over the rail into the bank. not the hardest trick but it was 1am and Jamie needed to warm up.
Exposure was set at 1/8s at F2.8. It’s not that fast but Jamie was very solid and there’s no blur in the backround and not much colour in the scene.

Here’s number 2.
Exposure was set at 1.0s at F2.8. Longer shutter speed let in a lot more light and i slowly rotated the camera with the shutter open to get a swurling effect i was looking for. The only thing that is lacking, the skater is too “see through” and not very solid. Still i like the effect and almost a cool shot. The London sky is very bright and yellow and it shows a lot in this photo. A little too much.

Number 3.
Exposure was set at 0.8s at F2.8. Slightly slower shutter but as you can see, it made all the difference. The colour is still strong,now the skater is strong too. I moved the camera a little less this time to get some blur. The light from the flashes hit the launch, bank, rail and skater. The backround is pretty blurred and just as we hit this shot, 2 security guards walked by to make the backround more interesting.
So the finished shot. A combination of slow shutter speeds, flash placement and slight movement of the camera let in lots of light, some blur and sharpening of the important things in the photo.

Hope you liked this little write-up. Here’s a few other photos with the same concept i shot along time ago.

This one is a really long shutter speed we shot for Be-mag back in Aus. Thats Richie Eisler painting the Be-mag, Mike Choley hiddin in the letters and Aussie photographer Hayden Golder, Richie again next to me when the flash went off.

Joe Coyne-Kingdom Magazine Interview

Joe Coyne, Oli Short and Adam Kola are all the from the UK. They started Kingdom Magazine and are now up issue 7. I thought it was time for poeple to know who is behind the mag and understand what goes in behind the scenes to bring Kingdom to print every issue. It’s now distributed world wide and if you don’t get it where you are, email or tell your local shop to get in touch with them here www.kingdom-mag.co.uk  Even if your not from the UK, open your mind and look at what goes in the UK. Maybe someday you’ll want to visit or even live here like me.

Dale: Where are you located and how many years have you been rolling?
Joe: I live in Brighton, the unofficial retirement capital of rollerblading. Been skating since 1993, not roller hockey, not reccy skating, grinding since 1993, so 15 years.

Joe MC ing NASS 2008

D: What role do you play in bringing Kingdom Magazine to our eyes?
J: I am co-editor of the mag and my time is split between chasing various contributors and advertisers, writing content for the mag and proofing every last page before we print. I also look after our website, Myface and Spacebook pages and of course run all the events and parties you know and love.

D: Who else is part of the team and can you briefly explain their role?
J: We’re fortunate to have some very talented and dedicated people in our team. Oli Short who along with Adam Kola helped found the magazine. Oli’s vision and ideas are what makes us tick and Adams photos are arguably the best in the industry. Ed Inglis came on board after the 1st web issue and is now our features editor, looking after everything from the video reviews to the interviews you read in the mag.
There’s also an army of contributors including Sam Butt and yourself taking snaps, Rupert Morgan and Lil Tom on design and all kinds of peeps writing content for us.
I almost forgot our publishing team at 328 media who have helped us realise our dream of bringing the magazine to print. They take care of advertising, distribution and all the admin that goes into running a mag. Without them, we’d be fucked!

Nick Lomax, Chris Farmer with his new DVD and Joe repping a DirtBox shirt on tour

D: What was the main aim you set out to achieve with Kingdom Mag and
have you come close to achieving it this early in the game?
J: I guess our main aim was to represent rollerblading in a new light. It wasn’t just by publishing a magazine but by running events, tours and parties to show people that might not have seen us before what we do. We have a long way to go before we’re where we want to be but we’re enjoying the ride.
D: There was a bit of controversy about a first few issue’s with non-English pros on the covers, any words about that?
J: Every single image that we print in Kingdom has been shot in the UK, bar maybe two or three. If the best option for a cover image we get is a foreigner, well we’re
going to run with it.
D: Following on from that, some UK skaters are complaining about the amount of Non English skaters in the mag, any thoughts on that?
Kingdom Magazine covers rollerblading in the UK, that includes visiting pros from all over the world. We always mix it up with British skaters and will continue to do so. Skaters will always complain, it’s in our nature. Just some advice to those negative mother fuckers, try being supportive for a change, it will make you feel a whole lot happier.
D: The UK isn’t such a large country geographically, but large with talent. How do these skaters make it to the pages of the magazine?
J: They need to make themselves known. Whether that’s by traveling to events and competitions or by sending us edits and photos, we are not psychics.
D: You’re up to Issue 7, how are things shaping up for the future?
J: All good, we’ve got some exciting plans for the next issue and all sorts of ideas for events in 2009, watch this space!

Thanks very much for your time Joe, I know your a busy guy and i wish Kingdom all the best for the future

Joe on another tour out handing out product at Milton Keynes

Issue 7, GO GET IT!!!!!