If you couldn’t tell by now, it just so happens that I like to let each week’s column happen as organically as possible. I honestly don’t like trying to have too much of a plan when it comes to the newest TTL’s. I like the fact that every week I have the ability to let the column take different directions and end up where it ends up so to speak. This past Monday I spent Labor Day chillin’ in Long Beach and shooting with Hoffman Bikes Caleb Quanbeck. We spent the day getting stuck at one school and I ended up shooting a bunch of photos while we were there. Since it seemed like Caleb had a newfound motivation to get shit done I wanted to give him the opportunity to have a feature on the site and let everyone know what he has been up to. Check it out.
Through The Lens Photo Contest #3
It’s that time again for another Through The Lens photo contest! This time around we’ve partnered up with a Quintin Co. for some dialed prizes for your photos.
This time around we’re looking for your best photo that you shot!
Here are the rules:
1. The photo can be of street, park, trails or even flatland if you
want.
2. You are allowed to use flashes or whatever equipment you want to
shoot the photo.
3. You are allowed to edit the photo. Here’s a little advice on how to
make your shot look good.
4. You are allowed to enter more than once.
5. All photos must be ORIGINAL and never before seen!
6. The photo MUST be shot by you. Stealing photos for this is sleezy!
You don’t want to be sleezy.
7. This contest is open to all amateur photographers. Professionals, you
are already getting paid for your work, so let’s let these guys have
some fun.
The contest will run until September 24thth where we will pick the top 10 photos. Then we will pass the top 10 on to the Quintin Co. team to pick the top 3 photos!
1st place will get a Cream Duke hat and a pair of Quincy Chinos.
2nd place will get a Black / Camo Nitniuq hat and Olson beanie.
3rd place will get a Charcoal Script hat.
To enter, head over to our Facebook Page and drop your photo on the wall. Please put “TTL Contest #3” as the description of the photo just to make sure we don’t miss it! Easy as that!
On September 24th we will take all the photos and pick the top 10 winners and let the Quintin team pick the top 3. We
will also drop a photogallery featuring some of the honorable mention submissions as well! We will notify the winners through a Facebook message, so keep your eyes out for that if you submit a photo!
Now, get to work! The clock is ticking! Oh, and don’t forget to Like Quintin Co.’s Facebook Page while you are at it!
Please leave any questions in the comments!
Through The Lens: Company Check – Quintin Co.
I wanted to mix things up a bit and put out an original interview for this weeks column. As a photographer in the BMX industry for the past several years I have come to meet a lot of amazing people and have been to some rad places. Some of those places happen to be company’s headquarters right here in Southern California. I am honored to be able to take the time to go and hang out with some good people and sit them down for an interview. That was the plan when it came to stopping by the Quintin factory. They have been making their way onto the BMX scene for years now and surely you have seen some of your favorite pros rockin’ a Quintin hat at some point. I wanted figure out exactly what Quintin is all about so I sat down with Rob and Brett and fired some questions their way. Sit back, relax and enjoy a look into one of the few BMX apparel brands and find out why they do what they do.
Through The Lens: From The Archives
When you shoot on a regular basis the photos just start stacking up and stacking up and before long, you have over 50,000 photos backed up on hard drives. This situation is pretty common for most photographers and although organizing and getting a true archiving system down can be annoying as hell, it is 100% worth it in the long run. I have been recently working on archiving tens of thousands of photos and am slowly making progress. In the meantime I figured I would pull out some photos for an exclusive gallery and inside look at some photos that have fell through the cracks over the years. Enjoy!
Photogallery: Through The Lens – From the Archives
This one was shot a few years ago at an LA street jam. It’s Mike “Hucker” Clark sending it for the long jump contest. The vibe of these jams is always pretty rad and it’s just all about getting a huge crew of riders together to cruise the city. Of course, tons of riding goes down and this spot in particular provided some serious entertainment. Actually right after this photo was taken my shutter blew out and had to be fully replaced for the first time.
Through The Lens: A Different Perspective
As a photographer I am always searching out ways to set myself apart and create content that people will be into. It’s one of the biggest challenges as a photographer and one of the hardest parts about it to be honest. Especially these days when everyone has a camera of some sort with them on a regular basis whether it be a digi-cam or an iphone and life is being documented by the minute. It’s a mix of doing what makes you happy and trying to figure out what will make viewers happy as well. That’s where this new “A different perspective” idea came from. Over the years I have interviewed tons of pro riders about anything and everything except one important topic. What is it like from their perspective to go out and shoot with a photographer? What it is that makes one person better to shoot with than others? I have always wondered about what goes on inside a riders mind before they prepare to shoot a crazy banger and put all of their trust into the photographer. I linked up with a few of my personal favorite riders at X Games and asked them to let me snap a shot of them for my $5 Kodak for a future project I was working on. Well, to be honest at the time I didn’t know what I was going to use the photos for but after some brainstorming it became obvious that the photos would be a perfect way to introduce this feature. See what Drew Bezanson, Dennis Enarson and Brian Kachinsky all had to say for the first edition of “A different perspective.”
Through The Lens: #MCNLBC Photogallery
For this week’s feature I wanted to do something different and put together an exclusive gallery from the time I spent working on the #MCNLBC article for Soul Magazine. I went through my folder of files and ended up stumbling upon this mix of photos that seemed to work well together. Whenever you invest a decent amount of time into a project you are always going to have an overload of photos that end up sitting around for no reason other than the fact that you can only fit so many photos in a single article in a magazine. Instead of letting them disappear into the darkness of my archives I figured I would let them see the light of day and get some shine time. Sit back, grab a drink and enjoy the gallery.
Through The Lens: Mongoose Jam 2012 at Woodward West
This week’s feature is going to be a little bit different than most and a bit of collaboration between The Union and Mongoose. I recently headed a few hours north of Los Angeles to shoot the Mongoose Team Jam up at Woodward West in Tehachapi. It was three days of shredding and nothing short of a good time. I was originally just going to cruise up and shoot a gallery for the site but at the last minute I was asked to shoot the entire event for Mongoose and of course I wasn’t going to turn that opportunity down so I ended up being pretty slammed with work over the course of three days. When it all comes down to it if you get to shoot photos, have fun, chill with some good friends and even sneak in a session or two and consider it “work” it would be hard not to have a good time. But enough about that just hit the link and get an inside look at what went down at the contest.
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