Sessions from Rampfest, Prahran and Ballarat skateparks featuring Jamie Nicholson, Hayden Golder and a few others of the Melbourne crew.

Over the past 2 weeks I’ve been doing some filming with my digital camera, wanting to see how it would cope with some of the rollerblading antics that we get upto. That plus I really wanted to use the AFI track.. I liked the build up in it and its not crazy long so pretty easy to get clips for it.

Edited in Sony Vegas, Filmed in AVCHD in SH(best) quality. Music bf AFI.

Panasonic DMC-FT1

Johnny Jensen – Iinvert
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600 | 1/200s
Nikon SB-26 right, on ramp

Danny Jensen – Mute Grab
Canon 40D | Canon 50mm(ƒ/1.8) | ƒ/2.0 | ISO 800| 1/250s
Nikon SB-26 right, on ramp

The NZ brothers showing off their vert skills. Love the invert, something you rarely see these days. In fact, I’m still waiting a new wave of vert skaters to pop up..you’d think the amazing skills of the Yasutoko brothers would some sort of inspiration?! Who wouldn’t want to learn how to do a twister (360 double backflip)…

Tom Coley-Sowry – Shifty/Royale
Canon 40D | Canon 50mm(ƒ/1.8) | ƒ/5.6 | ISO 250 | 1/250s
Nikon SB-26 left, on bench

Jamie Nicholson  – AO fishbrain
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/8.0 | ISO 400 | 1/250s
Nikon SB-26 above camera left

Some of the guys were heading down to Frankston Skatepark, seeing as it was a decent day Sarah and I drove down to meet up…Didn’t take long for us to check out some street spots, and I grabbed the camera gear out and snapped a few at this empty highschool…just before the kids came back.

Robbie Pitts – Fishbrain
Canon 40D | Sigma 10-20mm(ƒ/4-5.6)@10mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600 | 1/200s
Nikon SB-26 rear, Canon 430EX camera right

CJ Wellsmore – AO Fish
Canon 40D | Canon 50mm(ƒ/1.8) | ƒ/8.0 | ISO 400 | 1/250s

Tim Ward asked me to come down to this pool session that was happening not far from home. Rocked up and snapped some pics alongside Bsmith who was shooting some stuff for Valo of Bailey and Broskow. Got two decent snaps of CJ and Robbie..by then the sun was setting and it was time to call it a day.

Brian Aragon – Hurricane Top Acid
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600 | 1/250s
Nikon SB-26 handheld camera left

Brad Watson fishing for competitors in the Foam pit comp
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/8.0 | ISO 800 | 1/200s

The Aussie Rolling Open, a World Rolling Series stop took place at Rampfest over the weekend. With US teams Razors and Valo down it turned out to be a  huge event.. I was lucky enough to be there all day shooting for emesce.com. Tiring day, running around with camera gear all day. Craig Smith got some awesome footage and put together a very nice edit of the event as well.

Photography wise comps are a bit of a challenge..gotta be conscious about whats going on around you all the time..if you don’t and get taken out you’re not gonna be happy..and the competitor isn’t gonna be happy either hahah…The light in Rampfest isn’t the best so I was pumping the ISO.

More later.