2 Set stairs (Skateboarding)

hey all!

This is my friend Carlos Ruiz, he's on blind skateboards (profile link), we went out skating, i wanted to shoot this with my long lens but there was a croud of about 40 people watching behind me and they were all in the way.

Anywhoo. thoughts welcome,

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I'm not too fond of using a fisheye for big sets(even though you couldn't control that), but holy cow, that thing is huge!!!

this seems to work well here- agree with last comment but you did a good job in making it look massssive!

sick his shadow is especially cool

Very cool! I saw that and my jaw dropped. Took me a second to realize you're playing tricks with perspective. It looks at first like he's jumping the Grand Canyon or something.

Dbix wrote in post #2902592
I'm not too fond of using a fisheye for big sets(even though you couldn't control that), but holy cow, that thing is huge!!!

Yea, i wanted to shoot it long lens but i couldn't.

niro750 wrote in post #2902710
this seems to work well here- agree with last comment but you did a good job in making it look massssive!

Thanks for the comment :P
In reality the stairs reallly are HUGE lol the fish eye just make them look HUGER with the fish lol heres a sequence of before...

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ak_powder_monkey wrote in post #2903175
sick his shadow is especially cool

Thanks! I wanted another one but i only have 1 flash

Sonic Infidel wrote in post #2903296
Very cool! I saw that and my jaw dropped. Took me a second to realize you're playing tricks with perspective. It looks at first like he's jumping the Grand Canyon or something.

Thanks for the comment :P

This is the second time we go, we are going back this coming weekend he snapped 2 boards last time.

!WoW!

That's a sick shot. Where was your flash mounted? From the shadows it looks like the upper left corner of the photo just lower that level with your buddy in the air. I agree about the fish on a huge set, but I think you did well with what you had. So did he actually land it the second time with out having to ninja roll out of it? You sequence is nice too.

I like it.

BLS439 wrote in post #2904404
That's a sick shot. Where was your flash mounted? From the shadows it looks like the upper left corner of the photo just lower that level with your buddy in the air. I agree about the fish on a huge set, but I think you did well with what you had. So did he actually land it the second time with out having to ninja roll out of it? You sequence is nice too.

Yea, flash is camera top left.

Unfortunately/fortunat​ely he didnt land it (board snapped) we are going back again so that means i have another shot. Maybe i'm going to try a long lens and another angle.

One of the thing that sucks tho is that i have a cheap ebay trigger and i think other peoples cameras and/or phones set off my flash arrg! lol...

anyways thanks everyone for their input...

Ive seen his part in What If?
its crazy that you have such a good subject lol

When I first saw your photo I started to wonder if he is still alive!!! Then I saw your follow up post! Nice pic!!

When you guys go back and redo this and if he lands it, send it in to Transworld for the Sightings section. You might just get it published.

oh by the way is this guy wearing T.A.P.S now? lol

J D Skate wrote in post #2909533
Ive seen his part in What If?
its crazy that you have such a good subject lol

Yea. i've been knowing him since we were kids, we all used to skate and he stuck with it...i have a bunch of photographs and im finally getting better which i thank him for the patience lol

New video coming sooon tho!

gparvan wrote in post #2909535
When I first saw your photo I started to wonder if he is still alive!!! Then I saw your follow up post! Nice pic!!

hahaha, yea at the spot people were asking me if he gets hurt...lol

you should check out that video J D Skate is talking about heres a link to a preview

http://www.skateboardi​ng.com …30,1038169-836710,00.html

he does crazy stuff

anywhooooo! thanks for the comments im looking forward to this weekend. :P