We were just driving around and liked the doors and went with it. We had a sheet and I thought that we could do something eery since Halloween was just a few days away, even though I’m just now posting this in December. I shot at f4, ISO 200 and a slow .5 second shutter speed to have lots of blurry goodness. If you have any questions about how this photo was made, feel free to ask in the comments.

I shot these two images separate and combined them because I wanted to make sure I had a clean shot of the background that was really bright and saturated. I shot the background shot at about 2 seconds hand-held at iso 400. Typically I avoid shooting composite images but this was a basic one and I wanted to be cool like Rob since that’s what he does all the time.

By the way… Rob is an amazing conceptual photographer who makes me super jealous, you can and should see his crazy good work here and here.

Jason has been skating for about 9 or 10 years now, he’s from Rancho Cucamonga, and he shreds Upland Park like he’s got full special meter. His sponsors are Hurley Clothing, Pawnshop Skate Shop, and Hosoi Skateboards.

After you go through the photos, tell me which photo is your favorite in the comments and then make SURE to check one of his most recent video parts at the bottom.

-Nick

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Watch Jason’s part in Skate Movie:

If you don’t know Bwall, you should. He’s that guy who does a lot of different stuff and he does it all really really well. Originally, he’s from Tennessee even though he’s spent a good amount of time living on Brian Sumner’s couch in California or on tour with KKSM filming skateboarding.  He’s an incredible skateboarder himself and he’s just as good filming it too.  He also designs my favorite shirts for his brand, Rainy Day, which he’s unfortunately had to put on hold for now, because a mountain of video, motion graphics, and web design work monopolize his time.  Myself, among many others have tried to get him to make the move out this way, but his new nephew and the rest of his family keep him in TN, working on his newest venture, Blend Mode Creative which will launch very soon.  While you wait, check out his Vimeo page if you’re into awesome.

-Nick

I couldn’t be happier. It’s a lot to explain but in short, it’s better than a breath of fresh air. Boo YA! By the way, it’s been almost exactly one full year since my last blog post. Somebody needs to get me a present or something.

I’m not looking forward to re-formatting my old posts that I imported from my old blog but I’ll slowly make it happen. Check back for updates and new blog posts. Yep. New beautiful beautiful blog posts.

-Nick

Here are a few photos from my last shoot this past weekend. This is Matt Ross who does all kinds of hip-hop music. He has a tons of stuff in the works including a show in Hollywood on September 18th at the Dragonfly Theatre! BE THERE!

Tonight was a fun mission. I’ve never met Matt or his friends before today. A friend sent him my website and he said he needed to get some photos from me! We started shooting in the pitch black on a hill in Chino. I showed him the first test photo shot and he got soooo excited, and from that I was cracking up! The rest of the shoot was easy, we just hung out and shot photos!

Zach Peacock is one of the raddest guys ever and SHREDS tranny like nobody else! I’m glad I finally met him, we have about a billion mutual friends and we’d heard about each other for months from everybody and we just now linked up. It was cool! Now we’re pretty much best friends!

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