Street breakdancer

[sancho1983]

This was taken in London on a recent trip of mine, liked his t-shirt colour and went from there, i know a lot of people don't like colour 'popping', but thought i would share.

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/sancho_1983/headspinpop.jpg

Let me know what you think :D

[robertn]

Nice capture, awesome you got the face sharp. I too, don't like "colour poppin" like you name it and on top of that this photo certainly is not a situation in which such pp-technique would work. Besides that, the composition is a bit to centered for my taste which somehow makes the whole way more static than you probably meant it to be. Another thing, i'd suggest doing a more over-the-top pp (lot's of contrast, saturation and positive clarity) since i don't associate breakdancing with b&w at all which to me makes for another contradiction in this photo.
Next time, i'd tilt the camera when shooting this type of stuff and have the subject be off-center a little (look into the rule of thirds if you haven't yet) so the composition adds to the subject.

Other than that, good capture!

[sancho1983]

Thanks for the comments, how about this attempt, from the same image

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/sancho_1983/headspincontrastvign.jpg

Here's the original for comparison

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/sancho_1983/londonjune09201.jpg

[Wekkel]

Looks great. Pump up the contrast and its even better.

[reddyroc007]

i like the 1st pic but must admit the second one is more appealing since your subject isn't centered. as well the cut off bodies makes the subject your center of focus when viewing, not allowing my eye to stray off to the faces in the crowd as it usually does. great work.

ps - love the motion blur on the hands and feet. what was your shutter speed?

[sancho1983]

Thanks, 160

The guy did about 14 head spins, luckily his head stayed pretty still as he was doing them, meaning the face is pretty sharp.

Thanks for all the comments, i prefer the second one now :)

[perfeng702]

the landscape one is hot

[robertn]

Thanks for the comments, how about this attempt, from the same image


Good job!

[skifurthur]

I like the second version better as well. I love the little girl in the backgrounds expression.