I’m back from the South, and straight back to the “grind.” 2009 Woodward and Woodward West action sports and gymnastics catalogs are finally printing… all four of them (plus a fifth cover). Old man Koerner was by the studio today with some of the Dakine Skate team to shoot a couple of ads. One of the outtake shots is above (featuring Steve Reeves). That bag is getting tossed for real (as opposed to having added it in) and only took a couple attempts to get facing the right way. Professional bag tossers. When given the opportunity to throw shit around here, we do it.

Shot some photos in the studio today for Dakine of a pro skateboarder and his signature bag. Of course, we couldn’t show the whole bag as it was just a production sample. Here’s an outtake from the day.

All of the shots were shot with a bright white background (and most of them are more of a high-key white style), but one interesting thing about lighting in photography is that in this shot he’s standing about 5 feet in front of the bright white seamless wall. A couple of grids on the lights to control spill, and boom, what white?

Off to California tomorrow for a couple days for the LG Freestyle Motocross Championships.