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Wednesday 24 June 2009

Euro Trip 09’ WOOT! WOOT!

James Kelly, Patrick Switzer, Jackson Shapiera and Louis Pilloni will be touring Western Europe this summer hitting up a variety of longboard events and hotspots. Along the way we will be meeting up with friends and skaters. Patrick, James and Louis head out of LA June 28 with Jackson from Australia meeting us during Peyradudes. We are all excited for the new adventure that is in front of us.

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Friday 19 June 2009

Irvine Slide Jam Recap


The Irvine Slide Jam and Clinic went on last Sunday with around 50 stoked skaters showing up throughout the day. With the sun out and a cool breeze the day flew by as we slid down the hill for almost 5 hours. All skill levels were present eager to learn more and help others.

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Tuesday 16 June 2009

MOTION BLUR PHOTO CONTEST !!!!! June 16- June 28

At Loaded we love photography, we know that all of you love photography, so let’s do a little contest to encourage you all to take pictures and improve your photography skills. The contest is: THE BEST MOTION BLUR LONGBOARDING PIC. It can be of any boarder doing anything (speedboarding, dancing, pushing, carving, ollieing, falling.) Remember the subject is longboarding so please no pictures of people running.

WHAT IS MOTION BLUR: When the subject is in focus and the background is blurry. Motion blur is a technique used to capture action and movement.

HOW TO TAKE MOTION BLUR PICS ?? CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW

RULES: Take a bunch of sick motion blur skate pics and SUBMIT ONLY 1, UNO, folks, as an attachment to news@loadedboards.com. Try to keep the file size UNDER 2mb.

THE PHOTO DOES NOT HAVE TO BE WITH A LOADED BOARD. It can be any skateboard.

PHOTOSHOP: Using photoshop is fine to adjust your levels, contrast, saturation, to crop, but please do not pot apply any motion blur in photoshop. The motion blur has to be done with the camera.

TIMELINE: June 16th-June 28th. We will accept no more entries after JUNE 28th.

In the newsletter on JUNE 29th 3 winners will be declared. However the top 10 photos will be uploaded to the Loaded flickr account for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

We might get a lot of entries so just expect a short reply back saying that we got your photo.

PRIZES

1st Free Set of any O’tang Wheels

2nd O’tang T-shirt

3rd A bunch of Loaded and O’tang stickers

HAVE FUN,

Any questions email me at adam@loadedboards.com.

Remember to participate. If we get a good response, this will encourage us to do more contests like this in the future.

MOTION BLUR PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

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Monday 1 June 2009

GO SKATEBOARDING DAY 2009 JUNE 21

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