A shot I thought was kinda cool... skiing

let me know what you think

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a different crop

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Well, I think it's a cool photo because of the fantastic amount of snow shown. For all I can tell though, the skier just fell out of a tree. Sorry!

Nothing? Someones gotta think something! Haha

I've skied and snowboarded for years. This is a really cool shot.

That's a very good point, I hadn't thought of it like that but I see where you're coming from with that comment.

christisdale wrote in post #9437566
That's a very good point, I hadn't thought of it like that but I see where you're coming from with that comment.

I've never seen snow! The closest we come to skiing is surfing! I like your crop better. In the first shot it seems as though the skier gets lost with everything that surrounds him. Good shot though (even better with the crop). Must be tough to get the right exposure with all that dark and light areas.

Thanks windpig

And garys1 I definitely recommend snowboarding if you like surfing. I haven't surfed before but i'd love to try it, people I know who have done both though say snowboarding is the closest thing to surfing there is, and vice versa

Anything else? Brutality accepted!

Just a fraction of a second too late. Would have been great without the ski obscuring the face.

Look up the logo on the ski, see if you can sell the shot to the maker. I never looked at this as dropping out of the tree, I looked at it as bouncing off a trough. The colors of what the skier is wearing and the colors of what the nature around the skier is quit the dichotomy. This shot is killer to me.

yea only if it was a split second earlier when its not covering the face.
also hard to tell whats happening at first (for me)

ill definitely do that, great idea. thanks again, windpig, I like it a lot as well.

christisdale wrote in post #9438186
Anything else? Brutality accepted!

Its close but no cigar.

Without a face in the photo there just isn't enough to captivate this image. It would be SOO much better if the ski was off to one side so you could see his face.

On top of that it looks like th skier is on the fast train to nowhere. My guess is that he came to a dead stop within 1-2 turns after this photo if he made it over that drop at all. There's just no way to be that far back in the saddle in the trees on what appears to be a not-to-steep slope and keep going indefinitely with substantial speed.

Ski photos are very difficult because they need to be larger than life and to do that the photo needs to focus on more than just the athlete. On open terrain you either need to demonstrate that the slope is extremely steep (steeper than almost anything you will find in-bounds at a ski hill) or you need to show a lot of speed with a rooster tail in a turn. In treed terrain like this photo you need to show that it isn't just a one-hit-wonder - try standing back and zooming out a little farther so you can see the glades the skier just came through and where they are going.

There yah go ... my $0.02

cwood wrote in post #9444551
Its close but no cigar.

Without a face in the photo there just isn't enough to captivate this image. It would be SOO much better if the ski was off to one side so you could see his face.

On top of that it looks like th skier is on the fast train to nowhere. My guess is that he came to a dead stop within 1-2 turns after this photo if he made it over that drop at all. There's just no way to be that far back in the saddle in the trees on what appears to be a not-to-steep slope and keep going indefinitely with substantial speed.

Ski photos are very difficult because they need to be larger than life and to do that the photo needs to focus on more than just the athlete. On open terrain you either need to demonstrate that the slope is extremely steep (steeper than almost anything you will find in-bounds at a ski hill) or you need to show a lot of speed with a rooster tail in a turn. In treed terrain like this photo you need to show that it isn't just a one-hit-wonder - try standing back and zooming out a little farther so you can see the glades the skier just came through and where they are going.

There yah go ... my $0.02

Well ya pretty much hit that one on the nose... thats exactly what happened haha oh well i didnt think it was really one of the best ones of the set anyways, and theres still lots of season left!