Nick Taylor and Matt Manzari in the Keys
Subject: Nick Taylor and Matt Manzari
Photo: Josh Letchworth
Location: Book 1.2, Juice section, pages 4-5
I was down in the beautiful Florida Keys to shoot with the Nike 6.0 team back in April of this year. This was my first time shooting with that team as a group and I was very impressed with they way they operated as a group. Nick, Matt, Ben, Eddie, Steele and John are all great riders.
The concept for this year’s ads required me to think a bit differently about how I typically shoot wakeboarding and wakeskating. In every shot, I had to incorporate a “group” feel by putting other people in the shot besides just the main rider. Wakeboarding is a group sport, but at 70ft behind the boat the rider is often alone in his own world. It was definitely challenging to creatively show another person in all the shots.
For this particular shot, I bet they did 20 drive-bys just so I could line up Matt perfectly in the background. We even messed with his rope length to get him in just the right spot. I still managed to crop out Nick a little bit, leaving this one as an outtake. Since all the ads were going to be vertical, the abstract spacing on this horizontal shot fit perfectly for our Juice section.
Thanks Nike for the outtake, we appreciate it.
-Letchworth
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