Photographer Check Out: Garric Ray
Blair Alley
- April 07 2009
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- 19 comments
Portland, Oregon-based photographer Garric Ray has been living the skate life his whole life. He cut his teeth working in skate shops and constantly skating the Pacific Northwest. At 18 he blew out his knee skating and, in that down-time, became interested in photography. Tons of minimum wage jobs and saving money later, and he finally bought his first camera. Now, Garric has found his photographic style and his work has graced the pages of TransWorld, Thrasher, The Skateboard Mag, Kingpin, Concussion, and Automatic. Read below the gallery for a little Q&A.
First camera you shot with: The first camera I ever owned was a Canon AE-1 that I bought from a pawn shop.
Camera kit you’re using now: A Canon EOS 1 DS Mark II for stills, a Canon EOS 1 D for sequences, two Lumedyne power packs and bunch of lens. And sometimes I use my Hasselblad.
Favorite point and shoot: Canon SD750 Digital Elph.
Favorite film camera: My Hasselblad 500 C, I worked so many shitty jobs to buy that thing! I really need to use that beauty more often. It just hurts the bank account if you use it too often.
First published skate photo: In TransWorld a couple years ago, it was for a skate park, feature my friend Robert Bemis was doing a tre flip down a set of stairs.
Best photography advice someone gave you: I’ve been really lucky and have gotten advice from the best photographers around (Brian Gaberman, Jon Humphries, Mike O’Meally, Bryce Kanights). Those guys always say fill the frame, and always try to have your photos lit as crisp as possible. Also, always keep your flashes at half power.
Your advice to up and coming photogs: Well to be honest, I still think I’m trying to figure that one out myself. In my personal experience I would say never give up! If you love shooting skateboard photos enough and you keep at it, things will hopefully just fall into place . Also, I feel like the best advice out there is the magazines themselves. If you look at those long enough you start to figure your lighting and angles, etc.
See more at garricray.com
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April 7th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
yaaa dood hell yeah! he shot on of my friend’s photos he’s sooo good dood
April 7th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Yeah Garric! Sickk
April 7th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Best timing fo sho
April 8th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Garrics the man!
April 8th, 2009 at 12:54 am
photo 12 is sooooo perfect
April 8th, 2009 at 2:37 am
wooooooooooo,garrics hella tight.
April 8th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
check out the shadow on the building in that sw. heel shot (photo #5). sick.
April 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
props garric. the photos are legit
April 8th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
The shadow on number 5 is hammers
April 9th, 2009 at 9:41 am
gerrics a punk bitch
April 9th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
not a fan
April 10th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
it is good to see some new faces in the skateboard photo world, very refreshing!!! super great stuff, high quality images that i’m hoping to see more of!!!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:51 am
God dag! Kan jag ladda ner en bild fran din blogg. Av sak med hanvisning till din webbplats!
April 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
The yellow filter works really well on #13
April 23rd, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I’m the only one in this world. Can please someone join me in this life? Or maybe death…
May 13th, 2009 at 7:22 am
Hey this is Rob Dyrdek. First I wanted to say awesome post, and I was sitting here chilling out with Drama and we were playing around here on my favorite web site tansoworld. I wanted to invite everyone to my new blog that I am posting on everyday and I want to let all my fans know that I will be responding to comments there as well as posting new personal pictures and unseen videos and clips of me and the boys here at the fantasy factory playing around and doing what we do best. Hit me back on my new blog at http://www.robdyrdekfantasyfactory.com/ Skate @ Rob D. Oh yea I got to give a shout out to my boys at Transworld to See ya guys soon.