skate demo- first time using f70

[merman]

just some photos i took at a skate demo (plan b skate demo....P-ROD!!) it was a really dark day so i was shooting at 800-1600 iso, i had to do some gimping to get the contrast and all that right, so tell me what you think!



if you would lioke to see more, i have plenty

[Marko]

just some photos i took at a skate demo (plan b skate demo....P-ROD!!) it was a really dark day so i was shooting at 800-1600 iso, i had to do some gimping to get the contrast and all that right, so tell me what you think

Hi Merman,

You've got some issues going on in these shots - Here's a few of them;

Shot 1 has a reddish colour cast and you can't see the face of the main attraction.

Shot 2 has no real point of interest. It's just a shot of a guy looking down and another guy looking at a guy looking down.

Shot 3 is the best shot here - You caught the guy mid-action.
He looks underexposed however and the whole shot looks noisy which is weird for an outdoor daytime shot.

Sports photography is hard but one of the goals should be to isolate the main subject well and show what's going on.

What were your settings for these shots and did u try flash?

Hope that wasn't too harsh,

Marko

[merman]

its only harsh if it was ment to be lol

i can only remember that the shutter speed was about 1/400, the fstops varied...i did try using a flash, but i forgot my external, and the pop up flash just didnt get there (from were i was, they are very picky who they let on the concrete when the pros are skating) the reddish was good ol colour enhance in gimp lol,
the last one (the riders name is Paul Rodriguez) it was not under exopsed in the original, but because of his black sweater, black pants, black shoes and black board it made for very little depth, i had to play with the white balance and brightness/contrast......i think the noise was from scaling the picture down to fit it on here.....

thanks for the input by the way

[Marko]

its only harsh if it was ment to be lol

Nope my goal is always to teach and help people improve their photography. No harshness intended.

One of the keys is really isolating an interesting main subject and trying to guide the viewer's eye toward that main subject...and it is HARD.

Photography is a lot like painting in that the photographer can usually choose what to put in his/her frame. This is a skill that takes time to develop however and we often add a lot of stuff that should not be there.

Hope that helps,

Marko

[cdanddvdpublisher]

Nope my goal is always to teach and help people improve their photography. No harshness intended.

One of the keys is really isolating an interesting main subject and trying to guide the viewer's eye toward that main subject...and it is HARD.

Photography is a lot like painting in that the photographer can usually choose what to put in his/her frame. This is a skill that takes time to develop however and we often add a lot of stuff that should not be there.

Hope that helps,

Marko

But once you've got it figured out, it does come a lot more naturally

[tegan]

As indicated the difficulty with skateboard shooting is isolating the skate boarder from a "busy" background and I would add: getting the face and eyes in the shot.

Tegan

[merman]

getting the eyes was hard for that shoot, i was stuck at one spot on the side lines, they only allowed the pros to take the close up pics.....heres some more that i took of some friends that turned out a little better, i used film for this one.....(nikon f70)

shot 4 - i set the shutter a little lower so it would shot the bike in motion
shot 5 - a complete out of focus fluke, but i think it still turned out to be a pretty neat shot