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Grant Brittain photography part 2 podcast contains more brilliant insight from this legendary photographer.
“The photos that stand out in history are photos that were just shot by one person”
Grant Brittain photography part 2 podcast topics
skateboard photography ethics
- photoshop and skateboarding photography
- skateboard photography ethics
- Leap of Faith Jamie Thomas
- will California remain a skateboarding mecca
- getting authentic skateboard shots
nothing stands out
- the demand and amount of content
- nothing stands out
- nothing will be remembered
magazine skateboarding photography
- how to make a magazine today
- giant magazines have gone out of business
- today’s skateboarders don’t read skateboard magazines
- smartphone verses magazine views
- magazine consumption (back in the day)
- Tod Swank cover pissed people off
- David Carson
- magazines are advertorial
- authentic skate media
- the day of the monthly magazine is gone
contest photography
- crowded decks
- i wouldnt go to a contest just to watch it
photographers are having to rei n venting themselves
- intellectual property in the age of the internet
- companies using your images to sell things (until you call them out)
- art directors shoot products on their phones
- Atiba Jefferson
- selling prints
- having shows
- shows
dont sell
Transworld
- first I had to learn how to shoot photos
- then I had to learn how to make a magazine
- it was the optical days
- you had to order type and get it delivered
- do halftones
- rules triangles and t squares
- then computers
- and lighting progressed
- then computers progressed
- now people create content with their phones
analog is in
- anything that shows more craft is in
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sony verses Fuji
- I didn’t want a camera that says Sony on it
- mirrorless features and ergonomics
- Fuji cameras are fun
- Fuji’s are stealthy
4×5 cameras and iPhones
- Graflex
- TSA and old 4×5
everybody’s a photographer
- “When I started there were 5 photographers and now everybody’s a photographer and everybody’s got a darkroom and a camera in their pocket.”
film neg a tives and history
- artifacts
- cultural historical photos
- photos with processing mistakes
“with skateboarding its always been a one up contest “
- The photographer , and skater have to get gnarlier as each new shot is made.
back in the day
its all about video now
- Chris Miller does Miller Flips
- and we thought WOW how could it get any better
- then Mike Mcgill 540
- next Tony Hawk does a 720
- then a no-name kid 1080
- but
its not a big dealbeacues of the way its promoted and because he is a kid - if it had been Bob Burnquist
I was in the right place at the right time
- when skateboarding died
- there was Mofo (Mörizen Föche), me, and Glen E. Friedman
- Mofo brought Bryce
Kanight and Chris Ortiz - Grant brought up Tod Swank and Dave Swift
- I was there when Transworld started
- and Transworld supported so many people
Skateboarder Magazine, Action Now
- I wanted to shoot photos at the skatepark because of Warren Bolster and Jim Cassimus
Skateboarders find a way
- skaters are innovative
- they build ramps and empty pools
- some people look down on skateboarding
Skating became mainstream
- in media
- soft goods (clothing) in the general population
Skate photography the dawn of digital
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