Erik
by mariuca

Comment:
My favorite of the challenge!

Emotional Outlet
by scalvert

Comment:
I do believe I had that lens before you. :) Too bad I couldnt win a ribbon with it.

Swimming For Residents Only
by yakatme

Comment:
Looks like the spot off the sawgrass at the atlantic blvd exit... I go there to fish sometimes and shoot the sunset. Am I right?

Show Off
by LERtastic

Comment:
I went through a bunch of your skate photos and figured itd be easier to make one long comment on one picture rather than a buncha comments on a bunch of pictures.

Composition. Rule of thirds applies. Try to frame the skater in one of the 'thirds crossings.' You did it well here, but chopped off an arm. Make sure you dont lose any limbs, or body parts for that matter. I saw in a few other pics you cropped from the waist down. In general, it shows the trick, but you dont know who did it. Generally frowned upon in the skate community.

Lenses. Someone told me if you dont use fisheye, dont use anything under about 50mm. I took it to heart. Well, sorta. The message they tried to get across is, if youre not gonna shoot 'long lens' dont shoot with anything but a fisheye. Fisheyes make tricks look bigger and better. Wide angles are also generally frowned upon. I use a 35mm prime lens when not shooting fisheye, but with the crop factor it has a field of view of an almost 50mm lens. Other than that, I use a 8mm Peleng fisheye and a Canon 70-200 2.8L lens.

Skate Photogs also commonly use flashes. Off camera flashes make skate photographs look great. I personally use 2 off camera Vivitar 285 flashes triggered by pocket wizards. I meter these flashes with a Minolta IVF flash meter and then just shoot away.

Timing. Depends on the trick. Look at skate magazines to see the proper timing for different tricks or just ask the skaters if you truly arent sure when youre at a spot.

Hope this helps, if you have any other questions just PM or IM me.

Big Air
by nephoto

Comment:

Originally posted by LoudDog: Originally posted by petrakka: that russian lens was probably the zenitar which has good and bad copies out, but mostly its not too hot, but who cares about pixel peeping when u got the shot. Only thing that would make this better is a powerful fill flash and an underexposed sky, but its still pretty solid, congrats man. The lens could be the Peleng as well. Great photo, congrats on the ribbon!

Peleng is so much wider. Unless he did some serious cropping, Id say its safe to assume its a peleng

Director Clay Black
by L1

Comment:
nice photo, but the first thing i noticed was the over use of neat image or noise ninja or whatever you used. sorry to sound like a jerk but it was the first thing i noticed. maybe its just a pet peeve of mine.

No Title
by kyebosh

Comment:
I think id like it better if it had more contrast.

my dream house
by violeta

Comment:
The blown out sky isnt as much as a problem as the huge blown out white blob rock on the bottom.

Used Many Times
by popdeepop

Comment:
I think I would have preferred the swing facing in towards the frame rather than out and away.

1957
by KaDi

Comment:
I think using 'curves' in photoshop would have helped.