Wake Journal, Issue 85 by Wake Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2012

THE BLACK & WHITE ISSUE

ERIK RUCK TREVOR BASHIR / JUSTIN FISHER / SCOTT BYERLY

ON THE COVER By James Krawczyk Black and white photography D I G I TA L M AGA Z I N E www.WakeJournal.com Published every Monday.

is an artform where the phrase “less is more” truly applies. Without the added visual information that color provides, the viewer is able to focus more

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directly on the composition and details within the image. While it

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tion, mystery and depth in a way that color photos don’t. But in this digital photogra-

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phy age, with fewer and fewer

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black and white photos are a rare find. Sure, any color image can be converted to greyscale in Photoshop, but that is far different than making that conversion in

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your brain as you look through the camera lens. That ability to visualize the world in lights and darks is a hallmark of a great photographer.

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Similarly, great pro riders like Erik Ruck show that same attention to detail in their riding. There’s the same ability to visualize ahead of time exactly how they want their trick to look, and the same commitment to getting all the aspects of the

shot completely perfect.

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In this 85th issue of Wake

photos, digital conversions, and

RADAR LAKE, WA

Journal, we pay hommage to the

a few other creative ways to ex-

SUMMER 2011

nearly-lost artform with a mix

plore the theme. So get flipping

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JUSTIN FISHER

CANYON LAKE, CA

“With winch spots as rare as they

my rocks off with wakeboarding. What made

are, we constantly need to keep

this spot fun was a cave-like run that we had to

thinking of new and creative ways

cut through the bushes on approach, giving it a

to hit them. In this seasonal spot

real snowboard-like feel. When I see a black and

where this photo was taken, Eddie Valdez,

white photo, my eyes are drawn to the pop of the

Spencer Smith and myself built an incline over a

action more than color in most photos, giving it a

large piece of foliage in the early Spring. Shal-

more surreal feeling.”

low water and a sketchy run into it is how I get

—Justin Fisher

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SEQUENCE

DEREK COOK

CLEAR LAKE, FL

Switch Mute Tuck-Knee

BS 180s. Then, I started to grab

ning backside, you can do front

Wrapped BS 180

the board with my lead hand.

hand grabs (mute, nose, melon)

I first learned switch, wrapped

Since you’re wrapped and spin-

through the whole trick. I like to

grab mute on this trick variation

right knee towards the water.

I don’t over rotate

and then pull the board to my

With the handle, I’m pushing it

the last BS 180.”

lower back while dropping my

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TODD WATSON

BITHLO, FL

“The Projects is less than an hour drive out to the shoot, I wasn’t

raining where he was, but I knew

away from the beach, and for one

very optimistic it would happen at

the front was barreling in on us

reason or another, that area in

all because the rain was coming

quick. I scrambled to get a strobe

the city gets pounded with fast

down hard. I texted Todd to get the set up while Todd strapped in for

moving thunderstorms. On my

forecast and it surprisingly wasn’t

a quick pre-storm pull.

I was less worried about the

and not get zapped, I was literally

loaded the minute my door shut.

water and rain than I was the

out of the truck maybe 15 min-

That was one of the

lightning, a.k.a, the “big strobe.”

utes total. I snapped a few photos, sketchiest and quick-

This storm was a beast. Running

repacked my gear in a rush, and

est shoots ever.”

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like a light switch, the sky un-

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