Comments on: Top 10 photography tips, Parkour, Tricking, anything. (part-1)

By: Logan

Logan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:37:49 +0000

Wow. Great tips. Being a photographer and a tracuer, I’m usually trying to get a photo of either myself or my friends. Your tips will be helpful to many people, thanks.

By: Callieto

Callieto — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:37:07 +0000

thank you, bro

By: BennehBoy

BennehBoy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:54:12 +0000

Thanks for clearing this up in my mind so succinctly Scott.

As ever I’ll be trying to get along to training sessions other than on a Saturday.

For those interested, Scott is the traceur making the gap jump in ‘Leeds Leap’.

By: Scott McQuade

Scott McQuade — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:57 +0000

Unlike a few, I enjoy the attention we get when training around town but I rarely seek it. The odd complimentary backflip I cannot deny but we train on the public spots because they are good to train on, nothing more. I don’t think I’ve ever taken how public a spot is into account when I’ve decided which spot to train on next. This has as much to do with me not being bothered with people watching as it does me not seeking the attention. Some people will avoid public spots or find it hard to train there, where as some enjoy the attention and train there as good as anywhere.

There may be a few (probably the younger of us) that seek this attention but this is not within the spirit of parkour, it is not how we think. Basically it comes down to inspiration, spirit as such. If attention gives you a greater inspiration to train then without the attention you will find it harder to train which obviously isn’t good. In parkour, the spirit, the desire to improve upon oneself so that he/she can become useful, comes from within. You have to understand that most of our training is not done on Saturdays when we might have the public’s attention and friends giving words of encouragement so we can not possibly rely on them.

A lot of the videos made these days however, are amongst other things, showcases of ability to the rest of the community. There seems to be a growing trend of complimenting each others videos by commenting with no other input, simply to make the video look good and make the maker feel good. This also is not true to the spirit of parkour and is frowned upon by those that realise this. However it is the only showcasing within our training I can think of.

Scott.
Peace.

By: BennehBoy

BennehBoy — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:39:12 +0000

Andrew,

I understand what you are saying in relation to parkour to some extent, but the traceurs here (and elsewheree from what I’ve seen online) choose to train in VERY busy public areas. I’ve spoken to them about this a few times and the opportunity to be seen by the passing public is exactly the reason they choose these locations. From experience I’ve seen that this happens more often when the kids are practicing tricking, but it definitely happens during parkour training too – just look at some of the photos for proof.

Thanks for your thoughts man – I’ll put this to the kids again and see if they can elaborate a bit more.

By: Andrew Wood

Andrew Wood — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:23:21 +0000

Hi. I like your photography. Your tips are useful, I plan on trying them out. Just wanted to raise a point about “Here they exchange thoughts, learn techniques, socialise, and showcase their skills.”

I personally don’t ‘showcase my skills’ I’m pretty sure the leeds traceurs don’t either. I can tell you have looked into, and gained knowledge about parkour. Don’t like that line though.

Regards

Andrew wood

-WOODY-

By: SteveFE

SteveFE — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:46:39 +0000

Good read Ben, excellent points made, and nice to see some shots of you in action

By: BennehBoy

BennehBoy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:16:27 +0000

There’s another interesting read on this over at flipcatch -> http://flipcatch.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/tricking-photography-cake-training/

Oh I forgot to say earlier that I’m amending this list as I go, I’ve already added to the Rapport section, and intend to flesh out the others quite soon – it may be worth re-reading this over the coming weeks because new things will almost certainly be added.

By: BennehBoy

BennehBoy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:54:42 +0000

Yeah naturally there are things you simply cannot do with a P&S camera, but you can get pretty darned close with one.

By: Jay M

Jay M — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:47:30 +0000

I might quibble about being able to reproduce the results on a point and shoot but otherwise spot on – especially points 3,4 and 5. Anticipation is what marks a photographer from a snapper.

Oh – and I’ve never read the manual