Everyone has one of those people in their crew, someone who is a master of funky tricks, always does something out of the ordinary and can most likely catch a letter on everyone with them in a game of skate. In our crew, this person was Franco Cammayo...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 33 - Handheld Long Exposures - New York, NY
There are a lot of arguments out there about mirrorless vs. DSLRs. Both systems have their pros and cons but there are certain features on my Sony A7 cameras that I wouldn't be able to live without if I switched back to DSLR...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 32 - More West Coast Silhouettes - Venice Beach, California
As mentioned in my last post about Venice Beach, one of the best parts about this area of California are the sunsets. I think the best way to utilize sunsets are by shooting silhouettes. They're one of the only ways to isolate the colors and contrast in the sky without capturing a typical boring landscape photo...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 31 - Holidays in Venice - Venice Beach, California
I took a quick trip to LA this past week to hang out see some friends, skate around and shoot some photos. I didn't get to shoot as many photos as I'd hoped but at least I got to check out the sunset one night in Venice Beach...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 29 - One Of The Last - New York, NY
The thing about winter time in New York is that you don't get as many of these magical sunsets like you do throughout the summer. As the temperature begins to drop at the end of the year, they become less and less frequent...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 28 - Just The Icons - New York, NY
One thing I learned about using tilt shift lenses years ago from Vincent Laforet was that you can use the selective focus to tell the audience exactly where to look in your photos. In this case, I used the tilt shift to focus only on the part of the skyline where the Empire State and Chrysler buildings are. Even though there are tons of other buildings in the image, that's where your eye is drawn to...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 26 - Mini Brooklyn Bridge - Brooklyn, NY
For years I've wanted to mess around with a tilt shift lens. After seeing my buddy, Efrain, shoot a ton of sick photos with a tilt shift while walking around Cuba, I was fully motivated to get my own. Sony doesn't make a tilt shift lens so I had to look for a Canon lens which I ended up getting a really good deal on Ebay...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 25 - Showering In The Rain - Trinidad, Cuba
While I'm still procrastinating on the second half of my Cuba blog, I will share another one of my favorite images for now from the trip. For this one, we were in Trinidad (no this wasn't taken in the rainforest of anything, this was at our Airbnb)...
Read More#TBT - Sean Kelso - Sweat Stance - Pennsylvania
This is one from my earlier days of shooting blading photos. This was taken in September of 2006, which makes it just over 10 years old. It's so crazy how time flies...
Read MorePhoto Of The Week 24 - The City Beneath Your Feet - New York City
A lot of people ask me how scary it is to hang out of an open door helicopter over New York City. On the scaredy cat scale from 1-10, it's a 1.5. You're so focused on the incredible views and experience that you forget what you're actually doing. In most cases, when it's your first time, you're so focused on snapping away with your camera or phone that you don't appreciate the views as much as you should. It took me a few flights to actually stop and take a minute to look around and soak it all in...
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