Grant Brittain photography part 2

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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 reinventing 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 negatives 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 deal beacues 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

• First Digital Cameras

more J. Grant Brittain podcast episodes

• podcast part 1
• part 2
• podcast part 3

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