Author Archives: Scott Marceau

Photo of the Week: Travis Mortz

Posted on September 22, 2014 | Leave a comment

“This photo of Brad Thomas was shot on my first trip to Woodward West as a visiting photographer. This hip was very intriguing to shoot because of it being isolated and outdoors i was able to control my light exactly how i wanted too. I waited till about 15 minutes before the sun set and starting setting up my lighting. I used two Quantum T4d Q flashes raised up about 6 ft at half power both placed right outside of the frame at 45º facing the center of the hip to provide even lighting across the quarters as well as on the subject. This photo was shot on my Nikon D3 with a nikon 85mm lens, My settings were 1/250 F4.5 @ 400 iso.”

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Photo of the Week: Brendan Mulrooney

Posted on September 10, 2014 | 2 comments

I was immediately drawn to the composition of this photo, with the strong verticals and power lines forming a sort of arch around the rider, almost sprouting from the van in the corner. The pale blue sky complements the pale yellow barrier that frames the action and does a good job of attracting attention.

“This photo was shot during a 10 day trip from Philly to New Orleans, Paul Horan and I took back in July. We found this spot thanks to some vague directions from Steve Crandall that Paul was able to decipher. It ended up being a bit harder to ride than we thought it would be but Paul still managed to pop some nice euros out of it. I used one flash to the right hand side of the photo, up high on a light stand, to try and highlight Paul and separate him a bit from the background. When I went to get in position for the photo I almost laid in dog poop which would have been a total bummer and I probably wouldn’t have shot the photo after that. Thank god it didn’t go down like that.

Shot with:

Nikon D5000

Tamron 28-70mm f2.8 @ 40mm

F/11 @ 1/250

ISO 200

SB 800 flash triggered with Pocket Wizard Plus X”

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Tagged Brendan Mulrooney, Nikon, Paul Horan, Pocket Wizards, Tamron

Photo of the Week: Aaron Zwaal

Posted on September 4, 2014 | 3 comments

Patterns, shapes, lines, depth, tones, a splash of symmetry and a well-dipped toboggan all earned Aaron Zwaal the photo of the week.

“Back in February, Kadeem Eiland was in my town, Nijmegen in the Netherlands, for a BMX Jam. He got here early with a crew and we hit up the streets to shoot pictures with him for an interview in a german BMX Magazine called BMXRider.de and a poster for Dante Distribution where you can find the rest of the pictures of that day here.

The bank of the tobogan is one of the newer spots in town, they built that bridge last year and I really wanted to shoot something on it, we had already shot 2 things with barspins with him so a tobogan seemed fitting, at the time of shooting Simpel Session was playing on the live screen and Kadeem really didn’t want to miss Garrett’s run and we had to shoot it quite fast so I went the ambient route because setting up flashes would take too long.
I used a Canon 50mm f1.4 on a 5DM2 settings were ISO: 800 f2.8 1/125th
Edited in Photoshop with just some black and white conversion and contrast fiddle.”

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Tagged Aaron Zwaal, Canon, Kadeem Eiland, Netherlands

Division Brand Desktop Background

Posted on September 4, 2014 | 3 comments

Railhop/pole hop from Daniel Johnson during the filming for The Division Project, you can download it here for your desktop background.

If you are in Canberra this Friday you will be able to see the premiere for the video at Backbone. DJ’s section will be online first in the coming weeks. –Cooper Brownlee

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Tagged Cooper Brownlee, Daniel Johnson, Division Brand

Desktop Wallpaper: Raul Ruiz by Chris Mortenson

Posted on August 5, 2014 | 2 comments

During my recent stay in Los Angeles, I linked up with Push It A Stop contributor Chris Mortenson and suggested that we make a photo walkthrough. Within minutes, a shoot with Raul Ruiz was organized and we found ourselves in Glendale, CA a couple days later. The resulting photo can be your new desktop wallpaper by choosing your monitor resolution from the list below-

2880×1800
2048×1536
1920×1200

Here is how the photo was made-

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Posted in BMX, Gear, Photo, Tech

Tagged Canon, Chris Mortenson, Paul C. Buff, Pocket Wizards, Push It A Stop, Raul Ruiz, Wallpaper

“rad.” by Rob Perry

Posted on July 28, 2014 | Leave a comment

“I’m Rob Perry, I ride BMX and I study photography at college. I had started to create a small collection of my favourite photos that I had been shooting and I thought that it would be cool if I could make a small book or layout design to show these photos and also show off our BMX scene in Milton Keynes, England to everyone. However, I didn’t know how to create this layout/book.

Then luckily in college a few weeks later, a project came up where we had to create a photo journalism piece and straight away I knew I could use BMX. I could work with these images while learning a way to create this small book. This decision meant that I could be out riding, shooting more and having a good time with the different people that ride from our crew in the Milton Keynes area. Throughout this project while shooting the photos, it helped me to think more about the photos I was taking and to look into them to see what is actually happening around the BMX rider to do with the background and the framing of everything. This helped my photos as it meant the viewer would feel more involved with the atmosphere of the whole photo and the people. I took all of these photos on a Canon 500d and an Olympus OM-10.”

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Tagged England, Milton Keynes, Rob Perry

Fisheye Photo Contest Winners

Posted on July 24, 2014 | Leave a comment

The results are in! Greg Moliterno takes the cake with this high-intensity shot of Shane Cecil. Runners-up:

Kyle Lee by Shawn Duffield

Mike Curley by Josh Moore

Ewan Thacker

Benjamin Martinot by Kevin Proust

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Tagged Benjamin Martinot, contest, Ewan Thacker, Fisheye, Gregory Moliterno, Josh Moore, Kevin Proust, Kyle Lee, Mike Curley, Photography, Push It A Stop, Shawn Duffield

Photo of the Week: Alex Herzog

Posted on June 30, 2014 | Leave a comment

“My homie Sean Sieling and I made the roadtrip from our home in the Bay down to Southern California to meet up with some of our homies to ride and explore a bit. This was our first time riding in LA, and we came across this great grate spot I recognized from an old photo that Jeff Z shot of Codie Larson doing a hopwhip into it. I was so pumped that I made Sean do something into it as well. He opted for a hop turndown, so I tried to find an angle that would separate him from the background, while still keeping the wide perspective to convey the overall atmosphere of the spot. After a few test shots from different spots, I moved across the street and was pumped on how it looked;the classic palm trees, the entirety of the grate, the white wall to make his bike pop, and the street that he rode out into. I used all natural light with this shot, as my flash triggers wouldn’t reach from across the street (anyone who wants to donate some pocket wizards, hook ya boy up). This photo was a quick flick, and it just goes to show that you don’t need a ton of crazy lighting while on street missions with your friends to get some decent looking photos. Thanks for reading and thanks Scott for the opportunity! (also shouts out to Stephen Smith for helping me write this).

-Canon Rebel XSI
-Canon 50mm (f5.6)
-1/500th shutter”

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Photo of the Week: Matt Hildebrand

Posted on June 16, 2014 | Leave a comment

The colors, the composition and the shapes in this photograph make this the photo of the week.

“James has a one-track brain, he’s either completely engaged or miles away in his own head. Unfortunately he’s spent the last three summers trying to catch up on credits in summer school. This summer day at Capitol Hill high school was different though. James showed up to get work done and double pegged down this hubba twice, showing his rare attention to detail and his obvious love for grinding shit. This high school in OKC’s Capitol Hill district was built in 1928. This hubba (along with the wallride on the opposite side) are recent additions to the other spots in this ancient school.

Shot f5.6 @ 1/500th onto Kodak Ektar 100 iso film with a Hasselblad 500c (80mm lens) then developed by Bedford Photo in OKC and scanned in on my canoscan 9000f film scanner. I don’t really edit my film scans more than removing dust and adjusting the exposure for digital presentation. Lately I’ve been shooting more color since my college darkroom is closed over the summer, Kodak has been my favorite color film for a while now. My favorite part about taking this photo was hiding the designated filmer (Manny) directly to the left of the frame on one of the top steps. I attempt to make truthful images and don’t photoshop out filmers or any other distractions. Spending time moving around and composing the right image before I press the shutter makes me much happier in the end.”

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Tagged Hasselblad, James Anderson, Kodak, Matt Hildebrand, Oklahoma City