MIA SKATE PARK

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Last weekend Tony and I went to MIA Skate Park, here in Miami, FL.

We went the previous week before as well and decided to stick with it for a few hours every weekend.

I’ve been skateboarding from I was about thirteen years old.

Please don’t be fooled tho thinking I am pro now because I am no Jereme Rodgers.

But, I do love pushing around on myboard with the simple tricks that I’ve mastered: the Ollie, recently I’ve been killing the mini ramp and a few 50-50 etc.

For the past year I’ve been collecting TRANSWORLD SKATEboarding (The #1 Skateboarding Magazine in the world) and admire the shots submitted by the magazines skateboard photographers. I know I can do the same, if not better, with some practice; let’s see if I will have my photograph in the Magazine, here I come!

I will be practicing my skateboarding photography at my favorite skate park in Miami, MIA Skate Park.

Before we continue, that’s my friend Tony in the photograph above.

He’s one of my real friends here in Miami and an awesome skate partner.

The sad truth behind Tony and I rekindling the flames we had for the skate-park is that we currently extremely rusty (your strongest WD-40 won’t help). But, were are dedicated to getting back into the swing of things.

I can call Tony at whatever time in the morning and say, “What’z Good Tony you wanna skate” and he would be rolling over in bed waking up out of his 8th dream and he would say, “Yo man I am down be there in less than 20″.

Two from the old school are back to skate with the new school…well we are not that old …yet.

Let’s drop in.

Skateboarding photography is just like shooting any other sports photography.

To get great at it you have to practice.

Having the best photography gear would help your photos but when you don’t have the best photography gear then you need to suck it up and hustle like I do.

At the park I used Nikon’s AF NIKKOR 35-135mm lens and Nikon’s AF-s NIKKOR 70-300mm lens shooting with the Nikon D300’s body; for a few shots I used the Nikon’s SPEEDLIGHT SB-900.

What I am saving for and been wanting to get my hands on is the 10.5 fish-eye lens and a 12-24mm lens.

Reason why I would like to have those lenses is because they will give me wider angles. Wider angles will be great when I take the photos because I can be as close to the subject as I want and fill the frame the way I want.

In my skateboarding photography the wide angles will be creating more aesthetic, eye pleasing photographs for myself to admire and share with you.

MIA Skate Park an indoor park, a little more work / trickier environment for a photographer to shoot in compared to an outdoor park; perfect lighting becomes an issue.

I shot a high ISO, a high shutter speed with my lowest f-stops.

Doing that added the necessary, needed light into my photographs, freeze the action and give the feeling of depth the the lens I used. Oh I can’t wait to see what my 10.5mm produces when I get my hands on it!

I’ve always been fascinated by tattoos so I decided to photograph and make a collection of tattoos on skateboarders at skate parks. Hence the two photographs you see of the tattoos. I got my first tattoo at Eternal Truth on Miami Beach from my kick ass tattooist Mor Mogli.