skateboarding jersey barrier

nice capture, i like his intensity

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It appears you are using a flash, that's good. What's not good is that you appear to be shooting at a slow-ish shutter speed. You want to freeze the action that's occurring, so you'll need to jack up your shutter speed. There's too much motion/blur in his board and feet.

Consider shooting manual. Have your subject stand where you want your photo taken. Take photos until the lighting is right. Then have your subject perform his trick. If he's performing this one trick over and over, then you should be set and ready for it.

Practice and take lots of shots.

Also, try different angles, while this angle is good, if you got a little lower, it could be more dramatic.

You're on the right track. Keep shooting!


EDIT: Also, consider some photo editing software. You're gonna want to possibly sharpen your shots as well as bump up the color/saturation a little to really make them pop!

Canon 20d
ISO 100
shutter speed 250
F stop 8.0

See what you can do to get that shutter speed up to at least 500+. You may have to up your ISO a touch or bring down your F-stop. You are at a good starting point, just start tweaking from there.

groovehouse wrote in post #13675942
See what you can do to get that shutter speed up to at least 500+. You may have to up your ISO a touch or bring down your F-stop. You are at a good starting point, just start tweaking from there.

Thanks

The barrier is a little blown out and as mentioned above there is some motion blur. Unless you have speedlites or strobes to use highspeed sync, you will be stuck with shooting at 1/250. So you can power them flashes up more and shoot with a smaller apture. This will stop the motion a little more and allow you to get way with using flashes in that bright of ambient light.

cronu wrote in post #13677407
The barrier is a little blown out and as mentioned above there is some motion blur. Unless you have speedlites or strobes to use highspeed sync, you will be stuck with shooting at 1/250. So you can power them flashes up more and shoot with a smaller apture. This will stop the motion a little more and allow you to get way with using flashes in that bright of ambient light.

Cronu is totally correct. I forgot about the highspeed sync and 1/250 limitation.

yo 5150-
I just started shooting boarders myself, we are having some weird warm weather here in MN 53, yesterday.

To echo what others are saying, and to show my example, this was shot without flash (didn't want to kill the kid) so a little higher ISO than I'd like, but Shutter at 1/1000. I've found that even though they aren't "traveling" that fast, they move their body parts as fast as a pro baseball swing at times. I personally like to freeze any type of freestyle sport, people don't usually associate too much "speed" with them, so motion blur (unless used creatively) has a weak effect IMHO. Cool shot all in all- it is a great subject to shoot!

cheers

I wouldn't worry too much about the flash messing a skater up, especially during the day. Using a fast shutter speed without a flash will stop the action just as a multiple flashes powered high will, but the skater will not stand out much. I think you were on the right path, just a little more flash power and higher f-stops.

This is a link to a picture a close friend of mine took that I really like and shows the small aperture in combination with flashes during the day.
http://www.flickr.com …/57556525@N02/6​223369459/

This is with two 285HVs on full power. (Shot with full manual lens so sorry the exif data is not all on there. I think I used a f11 or something around there.)

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/cronuflicks/6​402691863/

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com …s/cronuflicks/6​303741924/