Nothing really special, photo taken at the new-ish spot. Propper hard to find a good angle, and ended up standing on a post. Only shot with 1 flash because my other was being retarded.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomrandall/

Josh - Back 5-0
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomrandall/

to be honest, i find that shot pretty poor in comparison to your other stuff

Yeh lol, such a hard spot to get a good photo. Got 5 frames left on my bronica, then ill get 2 rolls developed, which might have some nicer photos.

sure, it's not your best, but check those lines!

Surely if it's difficult to take a photo then the rewards will be better? I think you're stuck in a bit of a rut where the plaza is concerned, i know Trix rants at you 24/7 for this and you don't want to hear it again, but at the plaza you can just stand wherever you like, pick your angle and take a nice clean photo. That's all well and good, but like my photography teacher always tells us, it's when you push yourself out of your comfort zone that you start to get better work.

Not necessarily.
Thats silly advice from your photography teacher, so everytime you're taking a picture he wants you to climb a tree?

Bullshit you couldn't find a good angle, I can think of at least one place you could have gone. And make sure you're facing towards or side on from the main subject, you don't want to see their back. You've taken much better photos so It can't be that hard.

Well in the photo, I had to get the fact that you have to ollie over the ledge to get into the grind, show the skaters face, and have not have my tripods in the shot. So I had to put the tripod in a place where it wont get hit by a car, so I put it ontop of the ledge to the left, then it was between shooting head on, or behind, because shooting fisheye was looking crap.

I wanted to shoot with this old rusty car in the shot, but the second i set my tripods up, the owner of the car came back

So in the end I got ontop of a post, and this shot shows everything. If you ever go to the spot, you will see its actually quite difficult.

no, it's a metaphor retard. and it's fucking good advice.

jesus christ, why does everyone anal that 'rule'

theres been plenty of amazing shots i can think of that has the skaters back

robin - front 5-0


This is worse, but it shows some of the spot.

I prefer the second one tbh

did you stick this on sp?

ha, nah. They give wayyy too much shit for crap photos, so only tend to put my relatively decent ones on.

haha, you just know how the comments will go

for some reason i've going on sp gallery everyday checking out what the say, i hate how picky they are with pictures

Man there are soo many stuck up rich California kids whose parents just buy them the best shit. Although there are some pretty sound people aswel.