Archive for September, 2008:
Chad Bartie interview on Crossfire
September 29th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The guys over at the Caught in the Crossfire website (seven years and going strong still) have put up a good interview with Chad Bartie so get on over to their site and have a read!
Featured Photographer David Newton
September 29th, 2008 / 2 Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The next person up for the featured photographer series on Europeskate is David Newton. Funny that he lives right in a town real close to where I used to visit my mom…small world. His pictures grabbed my attention and I felt he deserved to get his name out there and known.
Who are you? Tell us a little bit about yourself (age, what you do in life, where you live)
My name is David Newton. I am 21 years of age and I live in the beautiful city of Boynton Beach, FL. I attend Florida Atlantic University, majoring in Computer Science (yea, I know…lame…). But I love photography, skateboarding, and music (playing and listening).
How did you get into photography, especially skateboard photography?
Photography is the most recent addition to my life. I did take random photos when I was little, but I started to really appreciate photography about 3 years ago. It started out with using a friend’s camera, getting an old SLR from a family relative, and then reading more and buying more. I’m not very good at skating, but I loved going skating with everyone. Being able to witness the tricks they would do. So I thought taking photos of all their amazing tricks would be something fun to do, and a couple years later, it still is. The best feeling is taking a really great photo of a really great trick. I feel almost as if I done the trick, too.
What type of equipment do you use for your photos? (outside shots, night shots, indoor shots)
I have a variety of cameras, but I mainly use three: Nikon D70s (for the digital shots), Nikon F100 (35mm shots), and a Bronica SQ-A (MF shots). For lenses, I have a standard Nikon 50mm, a Nikon 10.5mm fisheye, a Nikon 18-70mm, and a 80mm and 150mm for my Bronica. As for flashes, I use 2 Sunpak 555’s, and a Nikon sb25, all triggered with my PocketWizards. I tend to use this same setup for whatever shoots I have. Only other equipment I use for indoor shots are some umbrellas and stuff like that.
Do you have any special “tricks” which you like to use for certain types of pictures?
Haha. Tricks? I do what I can to try and get the photo. I’ll see what my surroundings are and see if I can incorporate them into the photo. I don’t know about any tricks, though. If I come up with any, I’ll make sure to make a trick tip video or something.
If you could get any new equipment for free, what would you love to have?
PocketWizards would be lovely, a Lumendyne flash would be amazing, or a 35mm fisheye for my Bronica would be the ultimate best freebie. Although that Lumendyne is pretty expensive…
What is your opinion on post-processing, especially enhancing pictures?
I hate it. I don’t like doing any of that HDR or whatever thing Atiba has been doing on all his photos lately. I’m sorry, but that’s not photography is about. Shooting whatever, then making it look better with all these crazy Photoshop techniques. I’m not hating on Photoshop, since I use it too for importing my digital RAW files, but I think the best photo is the one where there is little to none post processing. Just straight from the camera.
What are you currently working on and do you have any projects planned?
I’m currently working on getting my name out there in the photography world. I post photos wherever I can on the internet, usually on my Flickr, SkatePerception (www.skateperception.com), Kinesisfilms.net, Bustedskate.com, or I send some photos to a few magazines and see what they say. I plan on getting a website portfolio made someday, once I figure out how I want the website to be. I just hope I can get somewhere with skateboarding photography, or photography in general, and even if it remains a hobby, I’ll never stop loving the “click” sound of the shutter opening and closing.
Thanks to David for taking the time out for us and all the best for your future…
T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds November 29/30 in Berlin
September 29th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
For the second year in a row the team behind the T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds contest series will be returning to Berlin, Germany with the Street Session event featuring top names in street and vert skating (and some really good BMX riders as well) to skate it out in the wonderful city.
Once again the event will take place in the Velodrome stadium which allows the old foogies to sit and the others to get up close to watch all the action and the bands which include The Offspring as the headliner.
Skaters who have already confirmed are Alex Mizurov, Axel Cruysberghs, Tomas Vintr, Louis Taubert, Lem Villemin, Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Sandro Dias, Jürgen Horrwarth and Renton Millar with surely more to come. So a load of top skaters, good music and relatively cheap tickets to get in as well – get your tickets at www.t-mobile-playgrounds.de
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Post22 Issue 18 video out now!
September 29th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Some real good video work from the guys over at Post22 has hit the interweb with the latest issue 18 going up on their site. Starring in order of appearance: Tom Hyson, Anthony Alcantara, Drew Hanner, Cameron Keene, Sam Buxton, Lance ?, Jed Shooter, Chad Shooter, Julian Ethridge, Dirt Diggler, Durand Beasley. Watch the Post22 Issue 18 video now by clicking on the picture below…
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Epicly Laterd – Gino Iannucci – Parts 7 and 8
September 26th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Jonathan Young
Good thing with bringing out the latest Epicly Later’d videos on Thursdays and Fridays to spice up the pre-weekend video watching. Gino Iannucci is still the man this series is about (even though one could almost believe it’s more about his friend Keenan Milton and his untimely death) and parts 7 or 8 can be watched below.
New Puzzle Video Magazine Sept/Oct 2008
September 25th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
The latest issue of Puzzle Video Magazine for September / October 2008 is out now and available for download. Packed once again with a large portion of good footage, here are the details of what you can expect:
- Circa tour in Greece
The Circa team decided to get lost among the Greek relics…Featuring: Fabian Verhaeghe, Samu Karvonen, Rene Villumsen, Magnus Hanson, Geoffrey Van Hove
Filmed and edited by Geoffrey Van Hove (additional filming by Kostas Mandilas and Samu Karvonen)
- Globe tour in Denmark and Germany
Featuring: Jan Kliewer, Gabriel Angelke, Nino Ullman, Marcos Chami, Severin Von Ow, Eero Anttila
Filmed and edited by Ben Derenne
- Guys
Thibaud Fradin from France and Korahn Gayle from UK Both technical and impressive!!
Séquence: Korahn Gayle 360 Back
Filmed by Louis Gane, Junior, Georges Nevin and Goeffrey Van Hove
Willy Santos joins Satori Movement team
September 25th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
Not much to say about this but it keeps us up to date with who’s in what team. Willy Santos joins the Satori Movement team – welcome aboard! if some weird reason you don’t know much about Willy who is one of the best street skaters in my book, then catch up a bit with this interview over on skateboard.com or head on over to his own website.
New decks from DEATH Skateboards
September 25th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Jonathan Young
DEATH Skateboards has quite a good team together and I just love their designs. Simple and to the point (and they relate to my favorite football club St. Pauli – yeah, I have a season ticket and it’s great. You have to be in the stadium in Hamburg to understand, believe me, it’s not normal football there!) with their graphics, the new Punk Deck Pro Series represents Patrick Melcher, Zarosh and Richie Jackson.
Check out their site as they have a bunch of other decks and cool products if you like the skull,bones and death themes as much as I do!
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