Scott Moffat Photography - Action Sports, wedding, portrait, product, nature, scenic panorama, Cali: February 2012

February 24, 2012

Photographer Profile - ONE Mag

Recently ONE rollerblading Mag did an overhaul on their web site. I now have a profile on the site as a contributing photographer. Check it out!

Photographer - Scott Moffat

Age: 22Location: Kelso Valley, CAYears Blading: 12Years Shooting: 8Personal Statement: Rollerblading has brought a lot into my life and I am glad to have an opportunity to give back through my photography. Having an outlet for my work such as ONE mag is great because now a vast community of rollers can enjoy rolling through my lens. It is up to us in the media to do everything we can to make what we love so much look so good.

Photo Gear

Camera Body: NIkon D300

Lenses: Nikon 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 AF-S DX, Nikkor 35-70mm f/3.5-4.8, and a Sigma 50-500mm f/4.5-6.3 DG OS HSM

Lighting Equipment: SB-800 Speedlight System usually on 8' lightstand

Extra Gear: CF cards, various tripods, trees, poles, rocks, walls, anything reflective, and the occasional load of essentials from the rental house.

PHOTO JOURNAL: Scott Moffat #11

Being back in California has been great. I’ve been spending time skating with all of the Kern County and Intuition Land crew that I came up under years ago. Anthony Luna was THE skater that we all looked up to. Luna is a team rider for Intuition Skate Shop and a flow rider for Remz. We used to do a photo session for Intuition every time Remz would come out with a new skate. That was the beginning of my exposure as a photographer in the rolling industry, thanks to Matt’s tireless promotion of the rollerblade scene through his shop and Luna’s charged motivation to get out there and get that shot. Years later, it is great to come back around to the home front and feel the strength of my old rolling community. I have watched Luna constantly push and encourage the young and up-and-coming rollers of Taft, CA, which has a skate park where the rollerbladers often outnumber everyone else; where can you find that? Luna has always been big on negative tricks, and we have definitely sessioned rails much gnarlier than this six stair, but this neg-acid he threw down over and over again was clean every time. Getting my lighting right was the only reason we had to keep shooting because he has negative everything on the lock-down. Equipment used: Nikon D300 on tripod, Nikkor 18-70mm @ 18mm, shot at f/4 @ 1/5 ISO 250. Nikon Speedlight SB-800 at 55º camera right

PHOTO JOURNAL: Scott Moffat #10

Over the past year I’ve had the opportunity to roll amongst the community of Hawaiian rollers. Coming from the west coast, I had been spoiled, one might say, with the frequency of skater organized events and numerous rollerblade crews. Oahu had a stronger rolling scene than I had expected. From any given point on the island you were no more than 20 minutes from a decent skate park. Catching up with Akari Ihara on the drive home was an occasional treat. You may have seen this guy on the cover of the Rollerwarehouse catalog about a year back, Liu Kang air with the green frames. Akari is essentially the backbone of the Oahu rolling scene. Throwing the annual Hawaii Real Street Contest every summer on the streets of Oahu, and staying consistent with the weekly Sunday skate sessions are a few of the contributions he makes to the island rolling experience. As he was soaring through Manana skate park one afternoon, we had a mellow photo shoot. After gapping quarter-to-quarter over the 12-foot plus channel, Akari came at the sub-box from the other direction and threw down a tourqued top soul. That was the trick that made the shot, and we called it a session. Shot with Nikon D300, 18-70mm Nikkor at 29mm. f/7.1 @ 1/250 ISO 100. Nikon SB-800 at 45º camera left.

February 03, 2012

Taft Session: Anthony Luna & Chad Tannhill

Recently I got to skate over in Taft City, CA with Anthony Luna and the local crew. Luna and I have been skating and shooting for over ten years now, and man have we built up a portfolio over the years. This is the latest addition to our sessions. Luna rides for Intuition Skate Shop and is also on flow for Remz. Haffey just came out with his signature 2.2 pro model skates, so we had to do a photo shoot on the streets of Taft. We kept it mellow but clean. Enjoy the show.

Chad Tannhill was throwing down at the local park all night and I was able catch just a glimpse of his talent to share with you. Keep it up Chad, we are going to feature you next post ;)

©SMP_Chad Tannhill - Disaster Savana, Taft Skate Park

FLASHBACK: Jones and Snatchywaters Skate Street LA

Shot these back in Nov. 2009, just came upon them again and got juiced so I wanted to share them with you guys. Byron Snatchywaters and David Jones skating street in LA.