Travel Photo Mondays- Brisbane, Aus

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

We are not travelling far today from where I live. We photographed Matt Forshey a few months for a UK based magazine called Scoot Nation. We needed around 7 shots for the article. This spot is right down town. A very old rollerblading spot but always a good warm up. Matt nailed this boardslide after some serious waxings of this rail.

Photographed this with my 1Dsmk3 and 15mm fisheye. I had one flash in frame to light up and whole rail from behind him, One flash over my head and far back as my main light for the subject and to spill across the ground without leaving a shadow from me. One more flash as a separation light hitting Matt on his far side to make him pop from the background and light up some of that wall in the right of frame.

This was the opening frame for Matt’s interview in the magazine.

Travel Photo Mondays- Hollywood, USA

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

My first photo I shot in Hollywood! We travelled there after Arizona back 09′. I was photographing Matthias Ogger for his interview in Be-mag. This photo was taken in the back streets of Hollywood at an apartment building. He hit this at high speed and cleared the steps with a nice stylish wallride. Photographed with my 5D, 2x580ex flashes..

Travel Photo Mondays- Stradbroke Island, Queensland

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today takes us just off the coast of Brisbane to Stradbroke Island into Blue Lake. This lake is really clear and very fresh water. Krisztina’s just chillin before we jumped in. Great place for a swim if your ever over there.

Gamebred Submission Fighter Chris Birch Repost

I’ve had some problems with the blog this week and it seems my last weeks work had been wiped off so this is a repost of a shoot we did with Gamebred Fighter Chris Birch..

We had a few hours together at his gym at Bowen Hills and here are the results..

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Travel Photo Mondays- Stradbroke Island, Queensland

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

We spend some time at Stradbroke Island over the weekend for a short birthday holiday for Krisztina. We didn’t get the best weather but it was sunny more than the weather report suggested. Anyway here’s a photo i shot of Krisztina just chillin at the back of our car before going for a surf. No flashes, just a camera and a lens capturing a great laugh. Sometimes the emotional quality of a frame outweighs the technical aspects. Photographed on the 1Dsmk3 and 24mmTS lens..

Travel Photo Mondays- Phoenix, Arizona

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today’s another photo from Arizona. I loved Arizona while i was there and the skaters were great to shoot and Chad Hornish was no exception. This was just one of those amazing spots they had lined up for the night. It was big and almost pitch black so i had to light it with 3 flashes. Chad was going big also so i chose this angle to show his gap over the rail and distance he as traveling off the top of the stairs and Chad did the rest. The trick was to get Chad very close to the edge of the frame while capturing the take-off and landing. I remember on the first one he went huge and went way out of my frame so after zoom out and estimating how big he was going we nailed on the second shot with a really nice stylish grab.

Travel Photo Mondays- Brisbane, Australia

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Ryan Williams is one of the best scooter guys in the world by far. This week a video surfaced of him landed a double forward flip 360 at Nitro Circus so i had the post a photo of him.

We are not traveling far at all today and this photo of Ryan Williams is a killer. I spent a few days shooting Ryan’s interview for a magazine and most of the those day were long. This was at the end of one of those days and he still managed to kill this spot. These banks are big and steep. We set up a table at the so he could hope onto it then over the fence and into the bank. I used my trusty 580ex flashes to light the bank, backlight Ryan to make him pop and a fill light. This went was used as a double page spread as part of his interview.

And here’s the video of that amazing double forward flip 360. NUTS!!!

Travel Photo Mondays- London, England

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

I met Artur Szymocha in while living in London in 07′. Really nice guy from Poland and a hell of a skater. He had tricks for days on anything. He had been skating a very long time and it showed as we went to so many spots and he was extremely comfortable doing just about anything. We skated together for around 2 years while i was there and it was a pleasure taking his photograph. I have no idea where this spot is but he took me there and laced this ally-oop fishbrain down the kink. I went with my basic set-up, Canon 5D on my 70-200 2.8, 3 x 580ex speedlights on PW’s.

Gamebred Submission Fighter Chris Birch Preview

I don’t get that much time these days to take on personal work but i never like to turn it down. Chris Birch is a very old friend of mine and he is making the transition from footballer to fighter. He needed marketing images to build his profile in the sport with a website and facebook. We spent a few hours at the Gamebred Gym at Bowen Hills and walked away some great images. Here’s a preview.

Travel Photo Mondays – Texas, USA

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

We are back in Texas today. My good friend Josh Glowicki came out with an edit this week so i though i’d release another photo with him from 09′. We spent a lot of time shooting at night in Texas as i was there 2 weeks, it’s difficult to hit a lot of spots due to security. This is Josh’s old school if i remember correctly. Josh is awesome at skating, i have to say that, It takes me longer to set-up than for him to land the trick. Most of the time it’s first time with him. This Front Torque on this rail was no different.  I used my trusty 15 fisheye lens with 3x580ex flashes. One far right of frame to light wall and rail. One far left of frame so add a rim light on Josh to pop him out of that black back ground and over my head as a fill light to fill in the rest of the scene. I managed to get Josh at the peak of the action and we had out photo. Just managed to get him in my frame but that hand is very close to getting cut off.

Be-Mag Magazine Interview

 

Be-Mag Magazine is the worlds biggest rollerblading magazine. I used to shoot a lot for them when living overseas and i still submit photos. They emailed me a few months ago and we did an interview about my photography career and how i’ve moved from shooting rollerblading over the past 15 years into professional commercial photography. It’s a small insight into me and my photography and lots of photos i’ve shot from around the world. If your interested here is the link. http://www.be-mag.com/article/2647-Photographer-Profile-Dale-Travers . Thanks for reading

 

Travel Photo Mondays – St Louis, USA

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

While in America in 09′ I spent some time with some awesome dude from Texas then we road tripped up the country to Detroit. On the way we had to skate a bunch of places and this was one of them, St Louis! We travelled through this city late afternoon so we didn’t get much of a chance to skate before moving on but we did skate downtown.This rail was perfectly located with the arch in view but seeing it was almost pitch black, I had a run a really slow shutter. Shot with my 5D and only 2 flashes if I remember due to time restrictions. Brady landed this disaster to sweatance from the top step first try…

Photographing Family

My family has been hassling for ages to photograph them. I am running out of spare time as i work so much and then when I’m not working, I want to have a break from shooting but i still love photography and I wanted to do this. “We never have any good photographs of you and your brother” I hear my mum say all the time. We really didn’t have a lot of time and it was almost raining so i went shallow and bright. Here’s the results from a short 40min session avoiding the rain.

It was actually raining when i was taking this photo. We were under a tree so it wasn’t so bad. Cloudy weather is great for eliminating shadows. It’s a big softbox!

This was before the rain hit. We managed to get a couple of smiles out of him, well my assistant Krisztina was a lot of help. When photographing people, we always try and get a range of expressions out of them for marketing purposes and multiple uses. This shoot was all about smily happy images so Krisztina was a great help by chatting to him and making him feel comfortable.

This last shot I wanted a more confident look. We did the smily photos but life isn’t all about smiles. A nice confident, capable look. It also works well for business men and women to show confidence in their job role.

Thanks for reading..

Travel Photo Mondays – Bristol, UK

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today is Bristol the in UK. I was asked to come shoot a skate team fora  few days while they traveled around and filmed for a new video. I had the pleasure of photographing this guy, Scott Quinn. This is one of signature moves and he does it with so much style, i had to shoot it. This was taken back in April 2007. Just after i got to the UK. As you can tell, i could have done a lot better with the lighting. My shooting has definitely improved since then. Photographed with trusty 5DMk1 and only 1x580ex flash.

 

Travel Photo Mondays – Arizona, USA

Every Monday I show a travel photo from some of my journeys around the world including local spots in Australia like Darwin, Townsville, Brisbane and Alice Springs to overseas like Japan, London, Budapest, California, Vienna and the Netherlands.

Today we are travelling back to Arizona. I was there in 09. As i’ve said before, one of my favourite places in the US. Not only for their amazing skate spots but the people are so friendly and welcoming. Lots of skaters travel through here to film and enjoy the spots. Cameron Talbot just happened to be here when i turned up. This was my first day here and his last. Really nice guy and a pleasure to hang with for the day. He was heading back to Montana and i managed to get a few photos before he left.

We managed to shoot a few spots so there will be more coming out in the future of Cameron on my blog. This top mistrial was at the university. Amazing place to skate and we didn’t get kicked out. Shot with my 70-200mm 2.8 and 3 x 580ex flashes.