SOTW 8-22-08: Bonsor Full Pipe
September 22nd, 2008 by Kilwag
This week’s Shot of the Week is courtesy of Dylan Davies. It’s a nice 4×5 camera shot of Grant from New Zealand at the Bonsor skatepark full pipe in British Columbia, Canada. Every time I see pictures of this park it makes me think it’s some old relic, but I guess it’s actually from this millennium. You gotta admire the skate photographer who uses a 4×5 view camera. You need to lug the camera to the location, load the film in a true dark room,none of that red light cheating, do your metering, focus on the ground glass and pop the film back onto the camera. Then you slide the slidey thing out (it’s been a while) and hit the shutter release. Then slide it back in, take the film back off and bring it to a dark room to develop, one negative at a time. That’s a lot of hassle to get a decent shot. Not something you’d want to try on a kickflip variation that might be a bust on the first 20 tries.
Check out the full frame version.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Some weird scale issues in the shot. Those backboard supports in the background are so massive and one large graffito looks like it was done with a marker but huge. Cool shot.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 pm
No way that’s Grant. Dude in the photo has a helmet on.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
He started wearing a helmet a little while ago, it’s Grant.
September 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
SALUD!
September 25th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I love b/w film props to the photographer. Old school hard work love the image