Board sports

[petewood]

Hello,
here's a coulpe of shots from BC, Canada.
I tend to critique myself harshly as I'm hoping to eventually make a living from this sort of thing, progress and all that. Anyway, I pick faults in my work and I'm trying to shake the amature/hobbie apperance that seems to cling to my photos. It's hard to be objective.
ok, I'd better get on with it!

Both were shot on slide film
Provia 100,
35mm
scanned on a nikon 5000
Camera
eos 5 with
canon 75-300 IS
canon 17-40 L

these are the bare scans, no photo-shop!
if so what post manipulation should I do? I just baught a 20D so the Slide-To-Scan aesthetic and other technical imperfections will go, It's my first digital and I'm excited!
I'm keeping it to two examples so go ahead and tear them to bits, is the activity clear in both, (skim/snow)? What's the opinion from somebody unfamiliar with the sport?

all feed-back is great, I'm a big boy, I can take it!!!!!!!!!!
cheers,
pete

[petewood]

ok, me again,
gimmie a few minutes and I'll sort the pic's
pete

[petewood]

ok, this time,
thanks!

[sameerb]

too much of darkness in both shots
both concepts are grate though :)

[Meerkat17]

First of all your subject is too small within the frame - I'd like to see more of the snow-boarding person and less of the mountain. The action and drama of the shot is the person, the trail of snow from his board and lastly the snow drift which is hanging over the edge - I would say that you need to zoom in a lot further to highlight that action which in turn will make the photo.

Regards
David

[Littlenose]

Afraid the skim boarding wasn't clear to me... I thought it was a surf board, and simlpy a "set up", kinda thing you'd get up to when there was no surf if you see waht I mean.

I like both shots... the composition of the first i like with the mountain range in the background. And th elighting in the second i like too, but i would crop it a bit, mainly taking some off the bottom and the right.

[MilesG]

the second one is the best out of the 2 but they are definatly way to dark

[arumdevil]

I really like the second one, brightening it up just around the boarder would be nice but leave the rest dark.